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"Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.” — The Washington Post The New York Times- bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong How else do we return to ourselves but to foldThe page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of personal and social loss, embodying the paradox of sitting in grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous , Vuong contends with the meaning of family and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, these poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break. The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds , winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize, and a 2019 MacArthur fellowship, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment. These poems represent a more innovative and daring experimentation with language and form, illuminating how t

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Author

Ocean Vuong

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780593300237

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.5 / 5 (615 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14