Highly recommended.”-Library Journal, starred review”Night Sky with Exit Wounds establishes Vuong as a fierce new talent to be reckoned with…This book is a masterpiece that captures, with elegance, the raw sorrows and joys of human existence.”-Buzzfeed’s “Most Exciting New Books of 2016″”This original, sprightly wordsmith of tumbling pulsing phrases pushes poetry to a new level…A stunning introduction to a young poet who writes with both assurance and vulnerability. From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion.”-The New Yorker“The language is painfully, exquisitely exact, the scenes haunting and indelible…. His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal and insouciant. His poems are by turns graceful and wonderstruck. Vuong’s sincerity and candor, and from his ability to capture specific moments in time with both photographic clarity and a sense of the evanescence of all earthly things.”“Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. Vuong can create startling images (a black piano in a field, a wedding-cake couple preserved under glass, a shepherd stepping out of a Caravaggio painting) and make the silences and elisions in his verse speak as potently as his words…There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr.

Vuong’s new collection,Night Sky With Exit Wounds…possess a tensile precision reminiscent of Emily Dickinson’s work, combined with a Gerard Manley Hopkins-like appreciation for the sound and rhythms of words. One of the most celebrated poetry books of the year:The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016New York Times, Critics PickBoston Globe, Best Books listingNPR, Best Books listingMiami Herald, Best LGBTQ BooksSan Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the YearLibrary Journal, Best Books of 2016Michiko Kakutani inThe New York Times writes: “The poems in Mr.

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