Night Sky with Exit Wounds
 First edition cover
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| Author | Ocean Vuong |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Publisher | Copper Canyon Press |
Publication date |
April 5, 2016 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 89 |
| Awards | 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize |
| ISBN | 978-1-55659-495-3 |
| 811/.6 | |
| LC Class | PS3622.U96 A6 2016 |
Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a 2016 collection of poetry by Vietnamese American poet and essayist Ocean Vuong. The book won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2017, and Whiting Award in 2016.
Content
Vuong and his family immigrated to the United States from Vietnam when he was two years old. Many of the poems in the collection take the Vietnam War as their subject, including "Aubade With Burning City" which deals with the Fall of Saigon. "Untitled (Blue, Green, and Brown)", named for a Mark Rothko painting, is about the 9/11 attacks and Vuong's experience that day.