![]() ![]() Figuratively, there’s the idea (that we here at the B-side are more than slightly prone to) that poetic language is also musical language, that poems are often just song lyrics without melodies. When I say it’s full of music, I mean both in the figurative notion we often afford to poetry and the literal. But it is also full of family, fathers and mothers, full of moments and memories and history. ![]() And Night Sky is filled with violence, both promised and delivered. In these lines from the poem “Notebook Fragments”, Ocean Vuong succinctly lays out a central idea that he grapples with over and over in his debut full-length collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds : the reconciliation of an identity and being with all the violence of the past paths that lead to one’s creation. “ An American soldier fucked a Vietnamese farmgirl. ![]()
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