The poem is a combination of this imagery and lines from Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas,” the song broadcast to the Armed Forces, signaling that the final evacuation was underway. For example, in “Aubade With Burning City,” Vuong writes with vivid imagery about the Fall of Saigon in 1975, many of these images borrowed from the memory of his grandmother who would have witnessed these events first-hand. Vuong’s poetic sensibility is a result of his own experiences, as well as events recounted to him by his family members. Vuong was only two years old at the time.
Vuong’s upbringing plays a key role in the subject matter of the poems in this collection, often making references to the fact that he was born on a rice farm in 1988 and spent a year in a refugee camp in the Philippines before his family immigrated to the United States from Vietnam.
After publication, the collection received much critical acclaim and in 2017, the book won the prestigious T.S. Night Sky With Exit Wounds is a 2016 collection of poetry by Vietnamese American poet and essayist Ocean Vuong.
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