Night Sky with Exit Wounds Folklore When his sister's best friend

When his sister's best friend turns up in Seattle unexpectedly

negotiations

with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch

the perfect husband

Oren elucidates nearly every aspect of the conflict

Night Sky with Exit Wounds Folklore When his sister's best friendWINNER 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