Night Sky with Exit Wounds

…first full-length collection of poetry, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. Featuring poems about war and violence, immigration, and queerness, the collection won many honors, including the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, and the Forward Prize for best first collection. Vuong’s acclaimed first novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019),…

…first sizable collection of poetry, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, in 2016. The book met with critical acclaim and swiftly garnered attention in the literary world, winning the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Forward Prize for best first collection, and a number of other honors. Several of the…