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Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a 2016 collection of poetry by Vietnamese American poet and essayist Ocean Vuong. [1] The book won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2017 [2] —which made him the youngest winner of the award at the time at 29 years old, as well as the second-ever debut poet to receive it.
Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese-American writer who has received numerous awards and nominations. His three separate poems – Prayer for the Newly Damned, Telemachus, and Self Portrait as Exit Wounds – respectively won the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize, and the Pushcart Prize before being published as a complete collection of poems.
His debut full-length collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, was released by Copper Canyon Press in 2016. [25] His first novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, was published by Penguin Press on June 4, 2019. While working on the novel, the biggest issue Vuong had was with grammatical tense, since there are no past participles in Vietnamese.
"One of the things I learned as a son, maybe as a writer too, is that love is about acceptance."
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