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Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Paperback)
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Paperback)
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List price R362
Loot Price R291
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You Save R71 (20%)
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Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize 'Reading Vuong is like
watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English
with muscled intuition.' New Yorker An extraordinary debut from a
young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of
poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and
wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound
subjects - love and loss, conflict, grief, memory and desire - and
attends to them all with lines that feel newly-minted, graceful in
their cadences, passionate and hungry in their tender, close
attention: '...the chief of police/facedown in a pool of
Coca-Cola./A palm-sized photo of his father soaking/beside his left
ear.' This is an unusual, important book: both gentle and visceral,
vulnerable and assured, and its blend of humanity and power make it
one of the best first collections of poetry to come out of America
in years. 'These are poems of exquisite beauty, unashamed of
romance, and undaunted by looking directly into the horrors of war,
the silences of history. One of the most important debut
collections for a generation.' Andrew McMillan Winner of the 2017
Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection A Guardian / Daily
Telegraph Book of the Year PBS Summer Recommendation
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