After publication, the collection received much critical acclaim and in 2017, the book won the prestigious T.S. Snow on the tanks rolling over the city walls. Night Sky With Exit Wounds is a 2016 collection of poetry by Vietnamese American poet and essayist Ocean Vuong. The song moving through the city like a widow.Ī white. The treetops glisten and children listen, the chief of police Night Sky with Exit Wounds is an invigorating, razor-sharp poetry collection that meditates with both candor and artistry on themes of war, nationality, sexuality, and violence. a sprig of magnolia expands like a secret heard His cigarette as footsteps fill the square like stonesĪs the traffic guard unstraps his holster.Ī military truck speeds through the intersection, children He fills a teacup with champagne, brings it to her lips. South Vietnam, 29 April 1975: Armed Forces Radio played Irving Berlin’s ‘White Christmas’ as a code to begin Operation Frequent Wind, the ultimate evacuation of American civilians and Vietnamese refugees by helicopter during the fall of Saigon.
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