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How sweet. That rain. How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet.
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016.
In his haunting and fearless debut, Ocean Vuong walks a tightrope of historic and personal violences, creating an interrogation of the American body as a borderless space of both failure and triumph. At once vulnerable and redemptive, dreamlike and visceral, compassionate and unforgiving, these poems seek a myriad existence without forgetting the prerequisite of self-preservation in a world bent on extinguishing its othered voices. Vuong's poems show, through breath, cadence, and unrepentant enthrallment, that a gentle palm on a chest can calm the most necessary of hungers.
How sweet. That rain. How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet.
