Night Sky with Exit Wounds — Ocean Vuong

The first time I read Ocean Vuong's writing, specifically his poem On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (he has a novel by the same name), a window opened in a corner of my brain I did not realize had been closed — language could be used like this (like anyway we want it to, of course!?). There is a before experiencing Ocean Vuong and an after. This book contains that poem and is a collection I regularly return to.