![]() ![]() The b bursting its belly / as dark dust blows / through a blue-lined sky,” the allusion to bombs and plosive alliteration compounding the hardships of war and immigration that impact the speaker’s family. ![]() Later, in “Notebook Fragments,” the narrator expresses confusion caused by his Vietnamese roots: “In Vietnamese, the word for grenade is ‘bom,’ from the French ‘pomme,’ / meaning ‘apple.’ / Or was it American for ‘bomb?’” “The Gift” elaborates on this turmoil while the speaker’s mother teaches him to write the only three letters of English she knows, “the pencil snaps. You will want to crease every page to come back to it, to underline every other line because each word resonates with power.' LitHub 'Vuongs powerful voice explores passion, violence, history, identityall with a tremendous humanity. “Immigrant Haibun” unfolds as the narrator and his family travel across the ocean, escaping the war-torn city they once lived in above them, stars symbolize the promise of safety like “little centuries opening just long enough for us to slip through.” This experience serves as a reminder of the perilous journeys many refugees and immigrants have endured throughout history. ' Night Sky with Exit Wounds is the kind of book that soon becomes worn with love. In his poems, Vuong also draws from his family’s experience with immigration and the cultural divides stemming from his origins. ![]()
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