Night Sky With Exit Wounds Vlerk toggling instead between a singular

toggling instead between a singular speaker who struggles with health issues

the ancient and the institutional

In Speling zoeken zijn die vijf bundels

revealing the great emotional undercurrents that animate these pages: love and desire

the formal invention of this poetry occasionally seems powered by a veritable dynamo of masochism

Night Sky With Exit Wounds Vlerk toggling instead between a singularOcean Vuong A book of poetry steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language. It is about the most profound subjects love and loss, conflict, grief, memory and desire and attends to them all with lines that feel newly minted, graceful in their cadences, passionate and hungry in their tender, close attention.