{"product_id":"night-sky-with-exit-wounds-lannan-literary-selections-9781556595851","title":"Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Lannan Literary Selections)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe New Yorker  The Best Books of Poetry of 2016 New York Times  Critics Pick Boston Globe  Best Books listing Miami Herald  Best LGBTQ Books San Francisco Chronicle  Top 100 Books of the Year Library Journal  Best Books of 2016 There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr. Vuongs 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.\"New York Times From the outside  Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion.\"New Yorker \"Extraordinary.\"Los Angeles Times \"Ecstatic  bawdy  haunted  and brilliant with the pressures of its arrival.\"Boston Globe Ocean Vuongs first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial big\"and very humansubjects of romance  family  memory  grief  war  and melancholia. None of these he allows to overwhelm his spirit or his poems  which demonstrate  through breath and cadence and unrepentant.\" Torso of Air Suppose you do change your life. \u0026amp; the body is more than a portion of nightsealed with bruises. Suppose you woke \u0026amp; found your shadow replaced by a black wolf. The boy  beautiful \u0026amp; gone. So you take the knife to the wall instead. You carve \u0026amp; carve until a coin of light appears \u0026amp; you get to look in  at last  on happiness. The eye staring back from the other side Waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665809432629,"sku":"ByrdShop_1556595859","price":44.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781556595851.jpg?v=1782408114","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/night-sky-with-exit-wounds-lannan-literary-selections-9781556595851","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}