About the Book: Night Sky with Exit Wounds
An 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