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Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as a 2016 100 Leading Global Thinker, alongside Hillary Clinton, Ban Ki-Moon and Justin Trudeau, Ocean was also named by BuzzFeed Books as one of “32 Essential Asian American Writers” and has been profiled on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” PBS NewsHour, Teen Vogue, VICE, The Fantastic Man, and The New Yorker.īorn in Saigon, Vietnam, he lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he serves as an Assistant Professor in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at Umass-Amherst.

Vuong’s writings have been featured in The Atlantic, Harpers, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and American Poetry Review, which awarded him the Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. A Ruth Lilly fellow from the Poetry Foundation, his honors include fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Academy of American Poets, and the Pushcart Prize. Night Sky With Exit Wounds is a must-read for anyone with a sensitive soul.

Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. As a young gay man, Vuongs poems are filled with longing and fraught with angst. Eliot Prize Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move- he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016, winner of the T.S.

with homes or industry, illuminated only by the starry night sky and the headlamps of cars. Ocean Vuong is the author of the debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, out from Penguin Press (2019). Buy the sci-fi thriller at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Night Sky with Exit Wounds Paperback 21 April 2016 by Ocean Vuong (Author) 1,364 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 265.06 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 2,080.00 4 New from 2,044.00 Paperback 1,602.00 2 Used from 1,557.00 19 New from 1,129.

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