{"product_id":"night-sky-with-exit-wounds-ocean-vuong","title":"Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/category\/cultural-highlights\/book-awards\/the-t-s-eliot-prize\"\u003eT.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/category\/cultural-highlights\/book-awards\/the-forward-prizes-for-poetry\"\u003eForward Prize for Best First Collection\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescribed by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/author\/viet-thanh-nguyen\/48980\"\u003eViet Thanh Nguyen\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eas the “Walt Whitman of Vietnamese American literature”, Ocean Vuong’s debut collection\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNight Sky with Exit Wounds\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a profound investigation of the refugee experience and three generations of conflict in a land annihilated by the forces of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRemarkably, Vuong was the first member of his family to gain literacy, arriving to the United States as a Vietnamese refugee as a 2-year-old child. The poems included talk not just of the legacies of violence and cultural displacement but of a world brimming with hope and wonder. As the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erecorded, “reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition....His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal and insouciant. From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eUntitled (Blue, Green, and Brown)\u003c\/em\u003e: oil on canvas: Mark Rothko: 1952\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe TV said the planes have hit the buildings. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u0026amp; I said Yes because you asked me \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eto stay. Maybe we pray on our knees because god \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eonly listens when we’re this close \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eto the devil. There is so much I want to tell you. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eHow my greatest accolade was to walk \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eacross the Brooklyn Bridge \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u0026amp; not think of flight. How we live like water: wetting \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ea new tongue with no telling \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ewhat we’ve been through. They say the sky is blue \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ebut I know it’s black seen through too much distance. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYou will always remember what you were doing \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ewhen it hurts the most. There is so much \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eI need to tell you – but I only earned \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eone life. \u0026amp; I took nothing. Nothing. Like a pair of teeth \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eat the end. The TV kept saying The planes… \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe planes...\u0026amp; I stood waiting in the room \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003emade of broken mockingbirds. Their wings throbbing \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003einto four blurred walls. \u0026amp; you were there. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYou were the window.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57159001833852,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8930\/2764\/files\/nswew-ow-01.jpg?v=1783685931","url":"https:\/\/bookbubble.co.uk\/products\/night-sky-with-exit-wounds-ocean-vuong","provider":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}