{ "item_title" : "Night Sky with Exit Wounds", "item_author" : [" Ocean Vuong "], "item_description" : "The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016New York Times, Critics PickBoston Globe, Best Books listingMiami Herald, Best LGBTQ BooksSan Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the YearLibrary Journal, Best Books of 2016There 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 TimesFrom the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion.--New YorkerExtraordinary.--Los Angeles TimesEcstatic, bawdy, haunted, and brilliant with the pressures of its arrival.--Boston GlobeOcean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial big--and very human--subjects 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 AirSuppose you do change your life.& the body is more thana portion of night--sealedwith bruises. Suppose you woke& found your shadow replacedby a black wolf. The boy, beautiful& gone. So you take the knife to the wallinstead. You carve & carveuntil a coin of light appears& you get to look in, at last,on happiness. The eyestaring back from the other side--Waiting.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/55/659/495/155659495X_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "16.00", "online_price" : "16.00", "our_price" : "16.00", "club_price" : "16.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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