Two Boys Bathing During a Ceasefire

A white broadside with blue text.

The backside of the broadside with the poet's signature.

The poet's signature and the date of signing.

Ocean Vuong has a knack for finding the beauty amongst the ugly. In “Two Boys Bathing During a Ceasfire,” Vuong offers us a tender moment shared between two young men in the face of unconscionable violence. This broadside was printed in honor of Vuong’s reading at the 2015 Edge Series for Emerging and Younger Writers, which was held at the former Casa Libre en la Solana in Tucson.

Ocean Vuong. “Two Boys Bathing during a Ceasefire.” Tucson: Edge, 2015.