[and time erodes like thunder]

by Zoë Luh

Overview

This poetry collection powerfully chronicles one mixed-race, Chinese-American's emotional response to the trauma experienced in her family. Content warning for sexual assault, death, and medical violence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781733589758
Publisher:	Assure Press Publishing & Consulting
Publication date:	04/01/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	70
File size:	276 KB

About the Author

Zoë Luh is a student at Oberlin College and a member of the poetry team, OSLAM. A number of her articles on racial ableism appear in the Oberlin Review. This is her first book.

Table of Contents

HOME

[FALL]

I wake with tears longer than his hair 7

Ode to Disrespect 9

Tricube in si-lence 11

Trial of the Cannibal 12

Instead of doctoring viscera, I doctor the souls of others. 15

[WINTER]

WINTER IN AMBER

Dear Amber… 21

The beginning is always frozen… 22

I dream you are lying in a pool of blood… 24

I wish you were here… 25

Deep violet girl says… 26

Your dear friend Ruben died this week… 27

Tricube in mourning 28

explaining depression as something more than sadness 29

Clay 32

Dirge to seeds of blood 34

[SPRING]

the news article reads: 39

when he is not with me, he is still here: him and him and his hands. 42

i come from strong women and them from me 44

thyme 46

alternate universe in which right now i’m happy 48

,to feel safe after. It’s really fucking hard to feel safe again. 50

Tricube in tsu-nami 51

[SUMMER]

fern 55

Elegy of Summer 56

grief is a gift 57

in late summer 58

Tricube in ten-der 59

re-examination 60

About the Author 63