Vuong's poems show, through breath, cadence, and unrepentant enthrallment, that a gentle palm on a chest can calm the most necessary of hungers. 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. 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. WINNER, 2017 Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn AwardįINALIST, 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Library Journal 2016 Best Books of the Year Vuong's sincerity and candor, and from his ability to capture specific moments in time with both photographic clarity and a sense of the evanescence of all earthly things."-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr.
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