Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong Summer Recommendation and Forward Prize Shortlist translation Poetry Review

Poetry Review

including Eoghan Ó Tuairisc’s anguished response to the bombing of Hiroshima

a bringing to light of that which is obscured or lost

a Medieval English poem thought to be by the same anonymous author responsible for Gawain

Gate of Lilacsis the unique product of James's love and engagement with Proust's eternal masterpiece

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong <b> Summer Recommendation </b> and <b> Forward Prize Shortlist </b> translation Poetry ReviewPBS Summer 2017 Recommendation 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