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WINNER of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016 ""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."" --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Library Journal 2016 Best Books of the Year WINNER, 2016 Whiting Award WINNER, 2017 Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award FINALIST, 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award FINALIST, 2017 Lambda Literary Award FINALIST 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 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. Vuong's poems show, through breath, cadence, and unrepentant enthrallment, that a gentle palm on a chest can calm the most necessary of hungers.

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Ocean Vuong is the author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds. His poems appear in Kenyon Review, the Nation, New Republic, the New Yorker, the New York Times, Poetry, and the American Poetry Review, which awarded him the Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he lives in New York City. Keong Sim is a Vietnamese-American actor, writer, and audiobook narrator. He has lent his talents to multiple projects, including Olympus Has Fallen, The Last Airbender, and Grey's Anatomy. Keong Sim is a Vietnamese-American actor, writer, and audiobook narrator. He has lent his talents to multiple projects, including Olympus Has Fallen, The Last Airbender, and Grey's Anatomy.

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