A review by georgiasbookescapes
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This is a collection of poems by Vuong. It won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2017, and it’s easy to see why. Vuong doesn’t pull back from taking you into hard and dark emotions. Sharing parts of his families stories during the Vietnam War, moving to America, loving men. Vuong is a favourite writer of mine with the way he can pull on your emotions with beautiful and descriptive words. If you’re a fan of Vuong’s novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, you are likely to also love this collection of poems.