Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong Elizabeth Earnshaw Backed into a corner

Backed into a corner

old and young―the missing seem to have nothing in common

" —Kaveh Akbar

Rosa's pumpkins to Mr

can they find the truth before it’s too late

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong Elizabeth Earnshaw Backed into a cornerWINNER of the 2017 T. S. Eliot PrizeA New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016"There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr. Vuong's sincerity and candor, and from his ability to capture specific moments in time with both photographic clarity and a sense of the evanescence of all earthly things." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Library Journal 2016 Best Books of the Year WINNER, 2016 Whiting AwardWINNER, 2017 Publishing