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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

by Ocean Vuong

Whiting FoundationPoetryISBN 9781524705794

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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