{"product_id":"night-sky-with-exit-wounds-book-ocean-vuong-9781556595851","title":"Night Sky with Exit Wounds","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016\u003cbr\u003e New York Times, Critics Pick\u003cbr\u003e Boston Globe, Best Books listing\u003cbr\u003e Miami Herald, Best LGBTQ Books\u003cbr\u003e San Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e Library Journal, Best Books of 2016\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr. Vuong's sincerity and candor, and from his ability to capture specific moments in time with both photographic clarity and a sense of the evanescence of all earthly things.\"--New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion.\"--New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Extraordinary.\"--Los Angeles Times\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Ecstatic, bawdy, haunted, and brilliant with the pressures of its arrival.\"--Boston Globe\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOcean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial \"big\"--and very human--subjects of romance, family, memory, grief, war, and melancholia. None of these he allows to overwhelm his spirit or his poems, which demonstrate, through breath and cadence and unrepentant.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTorso of Air\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuppose you do change your life.\u003cbr\u003e \u0026amp; the body is more than\u003cbr\u003e a portion of night--sealed\u003cbr\u003e with bruises. Suppose you woke\u003cbr\u003e \u0026amp; found your shadow replaced\u003cbr\u003e by a black wolf. The boy, beautiful\u003cbr\u003e \u0026amp; gone. So you take the knife to the wall\u003cbr\u003e instead. You carve \u0026amp; carve\u003cbr\u003e until a coin of light appears\u003cbr\u003e \u0026amp; you get to look in, at last,\u003cbr\u003e on happiness. The eye\u003cbr\u003e staring back from the other side--\u003cbr\u003e Waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49738514858257,"sku":"NGR9781556595851","price":32.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50617202082065,"sku":"CIN1556595859VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51036811952401,"sku":"NIN9781556595851","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51423988384017,"sku":"CIN1556595859G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52482446000401,"sku":"NLS9781556595851","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1556595859.jpg?v=1750761037","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/night-sky-with-exit-wounds-book-ocean-vuong-9781556595851","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}