Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong (English) Paperback Book

Description: Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong A book of poetry steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language. It is about the most profound subjects - love and loss, conflict, grief, memory and desire - and attends to them all with lines that feel newly-minted, graceful in their cadences, passionate and hungry in their tender, close attention. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot PrizeWinner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First CollectionA Guardian / Daily Telegraph Book of the YearPBS Summer RecommendationReading Vuong is like watching a fish move- he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. New YorkerWinner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot PrizeReading Vuong is like watching a fish move- he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. New YorkerAn extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other.Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects - love and loss, conflict, grief, memory and desire - and attends to them all with lines that feel newly-minted, graceful in their cadences, passionate and hungry in their tender, close attention- ...the chief of police/facedown in a pool of Coca-Cola./A palm-sized photo of his father soaking/beside his left ear. This is an unusual, important book- both gentle and visceral, vulnerable and assured, and its blend of humanity and power make it one of the best first collections of poetry to come out of America in years.These are poems of exquisite beauty, unashamed of romance, and undaunted by looking directly into the horrors of war, the silences of history. One of the most important debut collections for a generation. Andrew McMillanWinner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First CollectionA Guardian / Daily Telegraph Book of the YearPBS Summer Recommendation Notes A debut collection of poetry that explores many profound subjects - from love and loss, to conflict, grief and desire. Author Biography Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds and the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth Were Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the 2019 MacArthur "Genius" Grant, he is also the winner of the Whiting Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His writings have been featured in Atlantic, Harpers Magazine, Nation, New Republic, New Yorker, and the New York Times. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. Review Night Sky With Exit Wounds…startled me with its urgency and its relevance. A eerily sure-footed debut. -- Rupert Thomson * Observer, Books of the Year *Vuong writes with a piercing, dreamlike clarity. -- Tristram Fane Saunders * Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year *Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition … His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal and insouciant. From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion. * New Yorker *Ocean Vuong is one of my auto-buy authors. I keep recommending his Night Sky With Exit Wounds to everyone; I cant shout loud enough about it… I have quite a complicated relationship with whats considered "classical poetry" but then someone like Ocean Vuong comes along, and hes doing something so exciting that you cant help but get caught up in it. -- Sara Collins * Refinery29 *The poetry is a conduit for a life in which violence and delicacy collide… I like the fragility, resilience and the sense that the stories that need telling are hardest to tell – a difficulty Ocean Vuong is courageously minded to overcome. -- Kate Kellaway * Observer *There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr Vuongs sincerity and candour, and from his ability to capture specific moments in rime with photographic clarity and a sense of the evanescence of all earthly things. -- Michiko Kakutani * New York Times *Ocean Vuong is the Walt Whitman of Vietnamese American literature. Lyrical, expansive, sexual, provocative, he sings of the Vietnamese body and of Vietnamese history. -- Viet Thanh Nguyen * Literary Hub *The operatic voice of the book is vulnerable and unpredictable. Some of its strongest poems are also the strangest… It is an impressive, uneven, moving book about painful and important subjects – and is the work of a young poet who might, excitingly, say anything next. -- Jeremy Noel-Tod * The Sunday Times *Many of the poems in this, Vuongs debut collection, achieve lift-off amid comparable scenes of drama and desperation… This is a book full of promise. -- David Wheatley * Literary Review *Vuong writes in what may be one of the most unfashionable modes of recent decades, in the richly meditative style of Rainer Maria Rilke. And, almost unbelievably, he does so successfully… Vuongs roomy, cool, risky poems are more than promising, and this is an exciting and compelling book. -- John McAuliffe * Irish Times * Promotional Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot PrizeWinner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First CollectionA Guardian / Daily Telegraph Book of the YearPBS Summer RecommendationReading Vuong is like watching a fish move- he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. New Yorker Prizes Winner of Forward Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection 2017 (UK) Winner of T S Eliot Prize 2018 (UK) Review Text Night Sky With Exit Wounds ...startled me with its urgency and its relevance. A eerily sure-footed debut. Review Quote Night Sky With Exit Wounds ...startled me with its urgency and its relevance. A eerily sure-footed debut. Promotional "Headline" Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize Winner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection A Guardian / Daily Telegraph Book of the Year PBS Summer Recommendation Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move- he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. New Yorker Details ISBN1911214519 Author Ocean Vuong Year 2017 ISBN-10 1911214519 ISBN-13 9781911214519 Format Paperback Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 811.6 Media Book Publication Date 2017-04-04 Pages 96 Language English Publisher Vintage Publishing UK Release Date 2017-04-04 AU Release Date 2017-04-04 NZ Release Date 2017-04-04 Narrator Matthew Beard Illustrator PJ Loughran Birth 1927 Affiliation Lecturer, University of Fort Hare Position Professor Qualifications J.D. Alternative 9781473548022 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:101338808;

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