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Night sky with exit wounds / Ocean Vuong

By:

Vuong, Ocean, (1988 -)

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Description: 89 p. ; 19 cmISBN:

9781556594953

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

811.6 VUO

LOC classification:

PS3622.U96 A6 2016

Summary: The poems in Mr. Vuong's new collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds ...possess a tensile precision reminiscent of Emily Dickinson's work, combined with a Gerard Manley Hopkins-like appreciation for the sound and rhythms of words. Mr. Vuong can create startling images (a black piano in a field, a wedding-cake couple preserved under glass, a shepherd stepping out of a Caravaggio painting) and make the silences and elisions in his verse speak as potently as his words...

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	811.6 VUO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		027603

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The poems in Mr. Vuong's new collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds ...possess a tensile precision reminiscent of Emily Dickinson's work, combined with a Gerard Manley Hopkins-like appreciation for the sound and rhythms of words. Mr. Vuong can create startling images (a black piano in a field, a wedding-cake couple preserved under glass, a shepherd stepping out of a Caravaggio painting) and make the silences and elisions in his verse speak as potently as his words...