5/23/2023 0 Comments Night sky with exit wounds author![]() ![]() One poem, “Seventh Circle of Earth”, about the men murdered in Dallas, is a poem only written in footnotes. Some poems are succinct and land gently on the page, while others fill up the page with blocks of prose. ![]() One of the most enjoyable parts of the book for me was the different forms Vuong adapts. The lines, “There is so much that I want to tell you” and “There is so much that I need to tell you” repeat throughout the poems, calling the reading into Vuong’s world, echoing how sharing these stories is cathartic to Vuong. It tells his parent’s stories of the war in Vietnam, and his own stories of intimacy and immigration as a gay, Vietnamese immigrant, growing up in America. It tells the story of the gay couple murdered in their home in Dallas in 2011. It tells the story of South Vietnam when the U.S Armed Forces evacuated in April of 1975, as Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” crooned through the streets. Ocean Vuong’s 2016 poetry collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds, tells the story of the immigrant working in a nail salon in New York as she learns the English alphabet. ![]()
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