Ocean Vuong. Copper Canyon (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (70p) ISBN 978-1-55659-495-3
In his impressive debut collection, Vuong, a 2014 Ruth Lilly fellow, writes beauty into—and culls from—individual, familial, and historical traumas. Vuong exists as both observer and observed throughout the book as he explores deeply personal themes
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Ocean Vuong. Penguin Press, $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-593-83187-8
Poet Vuong follows up his acclaimed first novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, with a searching and beautiful story of a troubled young man. “The hardest thing in the world is to live only once,” 19-year-old Hai narrates in the opening line, but...
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Ocean Vuong. Penguin Press, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-525-56202-3
Poet Vuong’s frank first novel (after Night Sky with Exit Wounds) takes the form of a letter from a man to his illiterate mother in which 28-year-old Little Dog, a writer who’s left the impoverished Hartford, Conn., of his youth for New York City,...
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Ocean Vuong. Penguin, $24 (128p) ISBN 978-0-593-30023-7
Vuong’s powerful follow-up to Night Sky with Exit Wounds does more than demonstrate poetic growth: it deepens and extends an overarching project with 27 new poems that reckon with loss and impermanence. Braiding past and present, Vuong’s speakers...
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