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WINNER of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize A 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 Award WINNER, 2017 Publishing Triangle s Thom Gunn Award FINALIST, 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award FINALIST, 2017 Lambda Literary Award In his haunting and fearless debut, Ocean Vuong walks a tightrope of historic and personal violences, creating an interrogation of the American body as a borderless space of both failure and triumph. At once vulnerable and redemptive, dreamlike and visceral, compassionate and unforgiving, these poems seek a myriad existence without forgetting the prerequisite of self-preservation in a world bent on extinguishing its othered voices. Vuong s poems show, through breath, cadence, and unrepentant enthrallment, that a gentle palm on a chest can calm the most necessary of hungers. Praise for Ocean Vuong: Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition....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 [A] masterpiece that captures, with elegance, the raw sorrows and joys of humanexistence. -- Buzzfeed Books An important new voice in American poetry. -- Beloit Poetry Journal What a treasure [Ocean Vuong] is to us. What a perfume he s crushed and rendered of his heart and soul. What a gift this book is. --Li-Young Lee [Vuong] takes from Pound the ability to eternalize a moment. -- POET