Night sky with exit wounds / Ocean Vuong.

Title
  1. Night sky with exit wounds / Ocean Vuong.
Published by
  1. Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2016]
  2. ©2016
Author
  1. Vuong, Ocean, 1988-

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Additional authors
  1. Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry WU
  2. Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe
Description
  1. viii, 89 pages; 19 cm
Summary
  1. A haunting debut that is simultaneously dreamlike and visceral, vulnerable and redemptive, and risks the painful rewards of emotional honesty.
  2. "Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--And very human--subjects of romance, family, memory, grief, war, and melancholia. None of these he allows to overwhelm his spirit or his poems, which demonstrate, through breath and cadence and unrepentant enthrallment, that a gentle palm on a chest can calm the fiercest hungers."--Publisher's description.
Uniform title
  1. Poems. Selections
Alternative title
  1. Poems.
Subject
  1. 2000-2099
  2. American poetry > 21st century
  3. American poetry > 21st century
  4. POETRY > American > Asian American
  5. POETRY > LGBT
  6. POETRY > Subjects & Themes > Love & Erotica
  7. Poetry
  8. Poesi
  9. American poetry
Genre/Form
  1. Poetry
  2. poetry.
  3. Gay poetry
  4. Poésie.
  5. Poésie homosexuelle.
Contents
  1. Threshold -- Telemachus -- Trojan -- Aubade with burning city -- A little closer to the edge -- Immigrant Haibun -- Always & forever -- My father writes from prison -- Headfirst -- In Newport I watch my father lay his cheek to a beached dolphin's wet back -- The gift -- Self-portrait as exit wounds -- Thanksgiving 2006 -- Homewrecker -- Of thee I sing -- Because it's summer -- Into the breach -- Anaphora as coping mechanism -- Seventh circle of earth -- On earth we're briefly gorgeous -- Eurydice -- Untitled (blue, green, and brown): oil on canvas: Mark Rothko: 1952 -- Queen under the hill -- Torso of air -- Prayer for the newly damned -- To my father/To my future son -- Deto(nation) -- Ode to masturbation -- Notebook fragments -- The smallest measure -- Daily bread -- Odysseus redux -- Logophobia -- Someday I'll love Ocean Vuong -- Devotion.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. "A Lannan literary selection."--Page 4 of cover.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (page 87-88).
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain
Awards (note)
  1. Winner of the Whiting Award