The voice in these poems are obsessive in this desire–reaching not only for oneself, but for the self seen by family and history. There’s a desire for understanding one’s body while watching other bodies linger and love. Night Sky with Exit Wounds is patiently abusive. The way he scripts a scene reminds us of the endless opportunities language often hides from us. Well, it is this act of labor we have come to love from Vuong. But, in these few lines, we fall in love with the lyrical imagery Vuong paints us. And then, that wanting peeking through a limited access, watching a man being loved by nature. When thinking about Night Sky with Exit Wounds ( Copper Canyon Press, 2016) by Ocean Vuong, I am captured by the beginning moments of the book–begging from within, wanting more than what was given or offered. Over his globed shoulders.” – Ocean Vuong, “Threshold” “In the body, where everything has a price,įalling through him: guitar strings snapping
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