Moreover, as critics like Michiko Kakutani and Christopher R. The collection itself is an exploration of the uncanny closeness between life and death, trauma and rebirth, nationhood and exile, pleasure and pain, parents and children, and love and violence. Instead, what Vuong received was an offer for the work to be published, and the collection was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2016. Since Vuong thought that such a rejection would provide him with valuable information regarding next steps and meaningful advice on how to advance his writing, he submitted the poems to the contest with low expectations. Vuong initially wrote the poems in the collection and assembled them for an open contest that claimed each rejection would be personalized. Night Sky with Exit Wounds is the debut full-length poetry collection by Vietnamese-American author Ocean Vuong.
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