Burnings
Ocean Vuong
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
4.50
· 4 ratings · 40 pages · Published: 15 Nov 2010
-Roger Bonair-Agard, author of Tarnish and Masquerade and Gully
“Vuong’s perfectly crafted poems are intensely personal, and intensely universal. What he has to whisper to us sears our eyes and minds like a branding iron, burning. Whether his words are of wars past or present, they are inescapably palpable. This is the work of a gifted cantor, singing of pain, singing of healing.”
-Grady Harp, Amazon Top Reviewer and critic
“Ocean Vuong is a poet of rare lyrical gifts and urgent stories to tell. “Memory,” he writes, “has not forgotten you.” No, it hasn’t forgotten the burning city or the taste of blood nor the hanging of rags or the violence of war. Vuong’s poems are testament to the enduring power of poetry and its place in this human universe.”
-Hoa Nguyen, author of Hectate Lochia and As Long as Trees Last