True soul of a poet! Dieser Artikel kann nicht per 1-Click® bestellt werden. temporär gesenkter USt. Suppose you woke, & found your shadow replacedby a black wolf. Impressive use of the precise word to convey a world of meaning. Bitte versuchen Sie es erneut. She kept saying, “I want to go to the bitch,” Vuong told me. In his haunting and fearless debut, Ocean Vuong walks a tightrope of historic and personal violences, creating an interrogation of the American body as a borderless space of both failure and triumph.

At birth, he was given the name Vinh Quoc Vuong. Ocean Vuong imagines his father as a prisoner-of-war, in grey overalls reeking of gasoline or lying face-down on a Vietnamese beach. ( Log Out /  You can read a more sympathetic view on Seventh Circle here. Part of that creation became "Night Sky with Exit Wounds," which won the 2016 Whiting Award and has now won the 2017 T.S. The multiple senses he "sees" the world is subtle and rewarding. This is one to reread and keep on the desk. This was a heartfelt, interesting collection with some experimental styles. Ocean Vuong’s father did not die on the shores of Vietnam. Something went wrong.

The poems in Night Sky with Exit Wounds are deeply personal. A 2014 Ruth Lilly Fellow and winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, Ocean Vuong lives in New York City. At once vulnerable and redemptive, dreamlike and visceral, compassionate and unforgiving, these poems seek a myriad existence without forgetting the prerequisite of self-preservation in a world bent on extinguishing its othered voices. That a woman on a sinking//ship becomes a life raft— no matter how soft her skin…”. Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2016. Douglas Fir.” “How could I have known, that by pressing / this pen to paper. À la place, notre système tient compte de facteurs tels que l'ancienneté d'un commentaire et si le commentateur a acheté l'article sur Amazon. Yet Ocean Vuong was the first in his family to read any language properly. They call him a scholar instead. Mr. Vuong can create startling images (a black piano in a field, a wedding-cake couple preserved under glass, a shepherd stepping out of a Caravaggio painting) and make the silences and elisions in his verse speak as potently as his words…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.”, “Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. Really a transcendent collection from a poet with incredible attention to form and language. I was a lit major in school and have read endless amounts of poetry, but Ocean Vuong is my favorite poet. Not more than ten pages away from this poem is one of my favorite poems in this collection, “The Gift.” I believe that this poem is a prime example of the complex interaction between the form and the emotion(al intelligence) that Ocean is able to maneuver.

© 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. ou ses filiales. Visceral, tender and lyrical, fleet and agile, these poems unflinchingly face the legacies of violence and cultural displacement but they also assume a position of wonder before the world.”—2016 Whiting Award citation, "Night Sky with Exit Wounds is the kind of book that soon becomes worn with love.