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vrinda2222's review
don't know if I believe in marking poetry books as read because I will be honest, there are poems here that I did not understand and probably won't for a long time and there are poems that I understood but will understand them more and differently whenever I choose to revisit. but anyways, one of my favorite poets ... and some lovely poems in here. Poplar Street is the poem that got me into reading more poetry & for that I will love u forever Chen Chen.
Lovely book!!! Worth reading! Teared up twice! and laughed at some bits too!
I will end with this -
"I wish I could write an elegy for my sadness / because it has suddenly died. I wish I could mourn it / by kissing you again & again while neither of us / can stop laughing, a kind of kiss where we sometimes / miss the mouth altogether, a kind of kiss / I think every single dead person / in every part of the world must crave / with violent impossibility."
Lovely book!!! Worth reading! Teared up twice! and laughed at some bits too!
I will end with this -
"I wish I could write an elegy for my sadness / because it has suddenly died. I wish I could mourn it / by kissing you again & again while neither of us / can stop laughing, a kind of kiss where we sometimes / miss the mouth altogether, a kind of kiss / I think every single dead person / in every part of the world must crave / with violent impossibility."
icedchai24's review
5.0
did chen chen put a camera in my house?? does he live in my brain?? who knows?? please read this book he is so candid and the writing is absolutely stunning (it can’t be anything but, this man is so insanely talented and this collection spoke to my soul.
blairmahoney's review
4.0
Funny, charming and witty poems from a poet who is definitely worth looking out for in the future.