Night Sky with Exit Wounds Stephen Savage the cost of doing magic

the cost of doing magic is death

just as desperate to escape her fate

Each spring

With Nadia's art and Priya's coding skills

Night Sky with Exit Wounds Stephen Savage the cost of doing magicWINNER 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