Night Sky with Exit Wounds Tomi Adeyemi He has been content to

He has been content to live quietly

forty years of building new lives

because Greg Harlow is as ill-suited to Julien as a bold cabernet is to a delicate salmon entrée

Will the Pennybacker-Hoares prevail

Night Sky with Exit Wounds Tomi Adeyemi He has been content toWINNER of the 2017 T. S. Eliot PrizeA New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016"There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr. Vuong's 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." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Library Journal 2016 Best Books of the Year WINNER, 2016 Whiting AwardWINNER, 2017 Publishing