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Night sky with exit injuries By Ocean Vuong
The Queer Ocean Vuong poet has published Night sky with exit injuries in 2016, and New York The magazine named Vuong’s first poetry as one of the ten poetry books of this year. Vuong was born in Ho Chi Minh Ville in 1988 and exquisitely details the scenes from the historic trauma of Vietnam. “The petals of dairy in the street / like pieces of dress of a girl,” is the memory of Vuong on the ashes that derive the dead and wounded during the fall of Saigon, when the “white Christmas” of Irving Berlin was being pipe in the streets. The young love is discovered: “Show me how ruin makes a house / out of the hip bones. Vuong presents depression, queer sexuality, domestic violence and violence that his family felt during the war and as refugees. “An American soldier kicked a Vietnamese farm. So my mother exists. The inhabitants of Vuong’s poetry all speak with an undeveloped voice, with a pure emotion that makes excellent political poetry. —Nancy Snyder
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