The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016 New York Times, Critics Pick Boston Globe, Best Books listing Miami Herald, Best LGBTQ Books San Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the Year Library Journal, Best Books of 2016&#10"There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr. Vuongs sincerity and candor, and from his ability to capture specific moments in time with both photographic clarity and a sense of the evanescence of all earthly things."New York Times&#10&#8220From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion.&#8221&#8212New Yorker&#10&#34Extraordinary.&#34&#8212Los Angeles Times&#10&#34Ecstatic, bawdy, haunted, and brilliant with the pressures of its arrival.&#34&#8212Boston Globe&#10Ocean Vuong&#8217s first fulllength collection aims straight for the perennial &#8220big&#8221&#8212and very human&#8212subjects of romance, family, memory, grief, war, and melancholia. None of these he allows to overwhelm his spirit or his poems, which demonstrate, through breath and cadence and unrepentant.&#34&#10Torso of Air&#10Suppose you do change your life. &amp the body is more than a portion of night&#8212sealed with bruises. Suppose you woke &amp found your shadow replaced by a black wolf. The boy, beautiful &amp gone. So you take the knife to the wall instead. You carve &amp carve until a coin of light appears &amp you get to look in, at last, on happiness. The eye staring back from the other side&#8212 Waiting.

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