Like Vuong’s debut collection of poems, Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016), which won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whiting Award, his novel reads like an effort to “un-map” the terrain of U.S ...

"I have never seen the ocean," he says in an introduction of the poem. "In my imagination, sometimes the ocean is calm and sometimes rough. While I was describing the beautiful and vast ocean, ...