Evening Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Queer poet Ocean Vuong printed Evening Sky With Exit Wounds in 2016, and New Yorker Journal named Vuong’s debut poetry as one of many ten books poetry e-book of that yr. Vuong was born in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis in 1988 and exquisitely particulars the scenes from Vietnam’s historic trauma. “Milkflower petals in the street/like pieces of a girl’s dress,” is Vuong’s reminiscence of the ash drifting over the lifeless and injured in the course of the fall of Saigon, when Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” was being piped into the streets. Younger love is found, “Show me how ruin makes a home/out of hip bones.//teach me to hold a man the way thirst holds water.” Vuong presents melancholy, queer sexuality, home abuse, and the violence his household skilled in the course of the struggle and as refugees. “American soldier fucked a Vietnamese farm girl. Thus my mother exists./Thus I exist./Thus no bombs = no family = no me. Yikes.” The folks in Vuong’s poetry all communicate with an unfiltered voice, with pure emotion that makes for glorious political poetry. —Nancy Snyder
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