Your review has been submitted and will appear here shortly.Ocean Vuong: Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean Vuong attended Brooklyn College.

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--Publishers Weekly " This book, with all of its fears, is probably what you've been hoping for." The book won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2017.. I wanted to be floored from the first poem to the last, no room for blunders. It seems like a natural transition after talking about form and language. The truths that Ocean gifts to the reader feel genuine, self-questioning, and open to mutual discovery. Content. He is the author of two chapbooks as well as a full-length collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. I’ll leave you with this heart-wrenching example of code switching from Vietnamese into English from the poem “Notebook Fragments”:In Vietnamese, the word for grenade is “bom,” from the French “pomme,”Woke up screaming with no sound. Night Sky With Exit Wounds is a 2016 collection of poetry by Vietnamese American poet and essayist Ocean Vuong. In the lines above, and throughout the book, is such intelligence and versatility. That rain. Main Night Sky with Exit Wounds. How do you pay homage to a poet who has lived through some of the experiences described in Continuing through the book, I began to take notice of the form, word choice, themes in each poem. Here is an excerpt from “The Gift”:Is it time to talk about language yet?

• Night Sky with Exit Wounds is published by Cape Poetry.

Siken Richard. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. After publication, the collection received much critical acclaim and in 2017, the book won the prestigious T.S. Ultimately, I was able to appreciate the words that Ocean repeats because every instance where the word is repeated it gains new meaning. The room filling with a bluish waterNow, I want to talk about themes. I took note of the themes that were reoccurring in Ocean’s work. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2016. To order a copy for £8.50 (RRP £10) go to bookshop.theguardian.com or call 0330 333 6846. Another example of language usage in the poems is the code switching from English to Vietnamese. His life lessons are slipped gently aside an image in the poems. Ocean has a range of poetic techniques that he is able to deploy to heighten the music of his poems. When I first opened Night Sky With Exit Wounds I was worried the book wouldn’t measure up to its hype. For example, here are some instances where Ocean mentions and rebirths his relationship to the word From “A Little Closer to The Edge”: “…His faux Rolex, weeks// from shattering against her cheek, now dims/ like a miniature moon behind her hair.”From “In Newport I Watch My Father Lay His Cheek to a Beached Dolphin’s Wet Back”: “His hair the shade / of its cracked flesh.”From “Homewrecker”: “… your fingers//through my hair— my hair a wildfire…”From “Because It’s Summer”: “… he’s waiting with sticky palms & mint / on his breath a cheap haircut / & his sister’s levis…”From “Into the Breach”: “Little black hairs //like the legs/of vanished insects.”I’m not sure if it’s possible to write a perfect poetry collection but, here in Ocean even created his own rules for the section breaks in this book too (you’ll see it when you buy the book). 75 quotes from Night Sky with Exit Wounds: ‘How sweet. There are so many turns in this book; surprise is one of the only things that can be anticipated. Language: english. Ocean has so many small truths and observations that he shares with the reader. The following ISBNs are associated with this title:Thank you. In this poem, the narrator is at a nail salon, teaching a mother how to write in English.

Night Sky With Exit Wounds is a must read and re-read, a book that will be cherished. 89 pages. --Kenyon Review "This original, sprightly wordsmith of tumbling pulsing phrases pushes poetry to a new level." If anything, this is the goal of any poet— to take the familiar and inscribe it with new meaning. Buy the Paperback Book Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong at Indigo.ca, Canada's largest bookstore. He writes in couplets, he writes chiasmus, and then he creates his own forms. I thought the opening poem, “Threshold,” was too broad and vague for an entry way into the book.

Vuong and his family immigrated to the United States from Vietnam when he was two years old. War of the Foxes. Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a 2016 collection of poetry by Vietnamese American poet and essayist Ocean Vuong. The truths that Ocean reveals throughout the book do not feel absolute and all-knowing though.

How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet.’ One of the most celebrated poetry books of the year: The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016 New York Times, Critics Pick Boston Globe, Best Books listing NPR, Best Books listing Miami Herald, Best LGBTQ Books … Please login to your account first; Need help? Eliot Prize.

I would think to myself “please, not another poem with teeth.” But ultimately, I think, this sort of obsession is what creates the poet, what allows the reader to understand the culture and viewpoint of the poet. Christopher R. Vaughan. $16.00. At times, I did feel a bit under stimulated by these repeating words. The form of the poems are so constantly and originally inventive. Year: 2016.

File: EPUB, 653 KB. One of the first big jolts that I encountered from As a poet, Ocean shifts into prose and out of prose.

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