num_pages: 89
description: Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial bigand very humansubjects 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 enthrallment that a gentle palm on a chest can calm the fiercest hungers.
language: English
title: Night Sky with Exit Wounds
publisher: Copper Canyon Press