There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr. 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.New York Times
From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion.New Yorker
"Extraordinary."Los Angeles Times
"Ecstatic, bawdy, haunted, and brilliant with the pressures of its arrival."Boston Globe
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial bigand very humansubjects of romance, family, memory, grief, war, and melancholia. None of these he allows to overwhelm his spirit or his poems, which demonstrate, through breath and cadence and unrepentant."
Torso of Air
Suppose you do change your life. & the body is more than a portion of nightsealed with bruises. Suppose you woke & found your shadow replaced by a black wolf. The boy, beautiful & gone. So you take the knife to the wall instead. You carve & carve until a coin of light appears & you get to look in, at last, on happiness. The eye staring back from the other side Waiting.
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