Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong Summer Recommendation and Forward Prize Shortlist Stack The excellent Naomi Shihab Nye

The excellent Naomi Shihab Nye perches on a staircase

immigration and the life of the European peasantry

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Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong <b> Summer Recommendation </b> and <b> Forward Prize Shortlist </b> Stack The excellent Naomi Shihab NyePBS Summer 2017 Recommendation An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. 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