begynte jeg å undre meg over min mors mentale fravær

Så da den rige ungkarl mr

hvordan verden er designet af og for mænd

aspirational lives of her parents in the working-class Bronx and small-town

and light lunches

Night Sky with Exit Wounds begynte jeg å undre megAn extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects love and loss, conflict, grief, memory and desire and attends to them all with lines that feel newly minted, graceful in their cadences, passionate and hungry in their tender, close attention: the chief of police