![]() Vuong creates these different realities to fill a void, a painful void, one that leaves the poet experiencing his own “exit wounds.” The family is sailing on a refugee boat, fleeing a burning city. His father is caught up in what happened in Vietnam. His father drowns in Newport Beach, California. His father is shot and dumped in the ocean, his body washing up on a beach. ![]() Several of the poems are directly about his father, and Vuong imagines different reasons (and realities) for not knowing him. Part of that creation became Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which won the 2016 Whiting Award and has now won the 2017 T.S. ![]() Born in a country he can’t remember, with a father he never knew, and likely asking questions that could never be answered, Vuong did what many of us might do. He grew up hearing the stories of Vietnam from his mother and grandmother. ![]() When he was two, he and his mother and grandmother settled in the United States. Poet Ocean Vuong spent the first two years of his life in a refugee camp. ![]()
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