Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Author: Ocean Vuong | Paperback The 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 San Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the Year Library Journal, Best Books of 2016 Torso of Air Suppose you do change your life.& the body is more than a portion of night--sealedwith bruises. Suppose you woke & found your shadow replacedby a black wolf. The boy, beautiful & gone. So you take the knife to the wallinstead. You carve & carve until a coin of light appears& you get to look in, at last, on happiness. The eyestaring back from the other side-- waiting. *********** 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 appreciat