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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
About This Book
Ocean Vuong is recognized for his debut poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which meditates on Vietnamese-American identity, queerness, war, and family with extraordinary lyric compression. This record is a writer-level placeholder for his Whiting Award.
About the Author
Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese-American poet, novelist, and essayist. He won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2017 for Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Cape Poetry). Read more →
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