One of the most celebrated poetry books of the year:

The New Yorker,The Best Books of Poetry of 2016

New York Times,Critics Pick

Boston Globe,Best Books listing

NPR, Best Books listing

Miami Herald,Best LGBTQ Books

San Francisco Chronicle,Top 100 Books of the Year

Library Journal,Best Books of 2016

Michiko Kakutani inThe New York Timeswrites: The poems in Mr. Vuongs new collection,Night Sky With Exit Woundspossess a tensile precision reminiscent of Emily Dickinsons work, combined with a Gerard Manley Hopkins-like appreciation for the sound and rhythms of words. Mr. Vuong can create startling images (a black piano in a field, a wedding-cake couple preserved under glass, a shepherd stepping out of a Caravaggio painting) and make the silences and elisions in his verse speak as potently as his wordsThere 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.

Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. His poems are by turns graceful and wonderstruck. His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal and insouciant. From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion.The New Yorker

The language is painfully, exquisitely exact, the scenes haunting and indelible. Highly recommended.Library Journal, starred review

“Night Sky with Exit Woundsestablishes Vuong as a fierce new talent to be reckoned with…This book is a masterpiece that captures, with elegance, the raw sorrows and joys of human existence.”Buzzfeed‘s “Most Exciting New Books of 2016”