The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016 New York Times,
Critics Pick Boston Globe, Best Books listing Miami Herald, Best LGBTQ
Books San Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the Year Library
Journal, Best Books of 2016 “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 “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 Air Suppose you do change your life. & the body is more than
a portion of night—sealed 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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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781619321564
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Copper Canyon Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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