Praise for Ocean Vuong:"[A] masterpiece that captures, with elegance, the raw
sorrows and joys of human existence." --Buzzfeed Books
"An important new voice in American poetry."--Beloit Poetry Journal
"What a treasure [Ocean Vuong] is to us. What a perfume he's crushed and
rendered of his heart and soul. What a gift this book is."--Li-Young Lee
"[Vuong] takes from Pound the ability to eternalize a moment."--POETRY
"Even as Vuong leads you through every pleasure a body deserves and all the
ensuing grief, these poems restore you with hope, that godforsaken thing--alive,
singing along to the radio, suddenly sufficient."--Traci Brimhall
"What this poet sees on the street, in a blizzard,