Night Sky with Exit Wounds

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Night Sky with Exit Wounds is Ocean Vuong’s acclaimed debut poetry collection, known for its lyrical exploration of war, migration, queerness, and family.

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instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Ocean Vuong
awardReceived Forward Prize for Best First Collection
T. S. Eliot Prize
Whiting Award
countryOfPublication United States
criticalReception acclaimed
debutWorkOf Ocean Vuong
form free verse
genre lyric poetry
poetry
hasSubject father–son relationships
history and memory
immigrant life in America
intergenerational trauma
masculinity
mother–son relationships
sexuality
influencedBy Vietnamese American experience
queer identity
refugee experience
language English
literaryMovement contemporary American poetry
mainTheme Vietnam War
diaspora
family
love
memory
migration
queerness
trauma
violence
war
notablePoem Aubade with Burning City
Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong
Telemachus
publicationYear 2016
publisher Copper Canyon Press
setting United States
Vietnam
linked to: Viet Nam
shortlistedFor Kate Tufts Discovery Award
styleCharacteristic fragmented narrative
imagistic
intertextual references
lyrical language
subjectOf literary criticism

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Ocean Vuong notableWork Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Vương Quốc Vinh notableWorkAs Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong notableWork Night Sky with Exit Wounds
subject linked to: Ocean
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous precededBy Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Time Is a Mother authorOfWorkPreviously Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Time Is a Mother follows Night Sky with Exit Wounds