Research Catalog

Title

Night sky with exit wounds / Ocean Vuong.

Author

Vuong, Ocean, 1988-

Publication

• Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry WU
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

viii, 89 pages; 19 cm

Summary

• A haunting debut that is simultaneously dreamlike and visceral, vulnerable and redemptive, and risks the painful rewards of emotional honesty.
• "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

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• American poetry > 21st century
• American poetry > 21st century
• POETRY > American > Asian American
• POETRY > LGBT
• POETRY > Subjects & Themes > Love & Erotica
• Poetry
• Poesi
• American poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Gay poetry
• Poésie.
• Poésie homosexuelle.

Note

• "A Lannan literary selection."--Page 4 of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 87-88).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Awards (note)

• Winner of the Whiting Award

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9781556595851
• 1556595859
• 9781556594953
• 155659495X

LCCN

• 2015038100
• 40025926634

OCLC

• 920018887
• SCSB-11481832

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library