Night sky with exit wounds

มีรอยพับมุมกระดาษ 1 หน้า An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poctry unlike any other: Like any good son, I pull my father out of the water, drag him by his hair through white sand, his knuckles carving a trail the waves rush in to erase... ...Do you know who I am, Ba? But the answer never comes. The answer is the bullet hole in the back, brimming with seawater. 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.