Two individuals interact as if they were strangers, blurring the expected dynamic between father and son, and both unknowing of the role either one must fit: “he could be anyone’s father, found / the way a green bottle might appear / at a boy’s feet containing a year / he has never touched.” The mention of untouched time signifies the ambivalent demeanor of the two characters, conveying a sense of loss, not particularly of time, but of interconnection. In Vuong’s “Telemachus,” the allusion to Homer’s Odyssey is made to illustrate Telemachus’ reaction to his father, Odysseus, arriving at the shore.
Ocean Vuong’s collection of poems Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a creative self-exploration, weaving and questioning binaries, and traveling the spectrum of moral ambiguity.
A Review of Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Miguel Soto
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