Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Description

Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times writes: “The poems in 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. Mr. 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 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.”

Subjects

Series Statement

• Lannan literary selections

Other Editions

• Night Sky with Exit WoundsCopper Canyon Press2016-01-01
• Night Sky with Exit WoundsCopper Canyon Press2016-01-01
• Night Sky with Exit WoundsPenguin Random House2017-01-01
• Night Sky with Exit WoundsPenguin Random House2017-01-01
• Night Sky with Exit WoundsHardcoverCopper Canyon Press2019-06-07