A review by vrinda2222
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen

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."