bThe iNew York Times-ibestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong pTake your time with these poems, and return to them often. --iThe Washington Postib piHow else do we return to ourselves but to foldibr iThe page so it points to the good parti pIn this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of personal and social loss, embodying the paradox of sitting in grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel iOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeousi, Vuong contends with the meaning of family and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, these poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break. pThe author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection iNight Sky with Exit Woundsi, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize, and a 20