No
Ocean Vuong
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
4.50
· 2 ratings · 233 pages · Published: 01 Oct 2013
—Jericho Brown, Please
Anyone who has already sensed that “hope is a feathered thing that dies in the Lord’s mouth,” should get their hands on NO. Honest, intimate, and brimming with lyric intensity, these stunning poems come of age with a fifth of vodka and an afternoon in an attic, with a record stuck on please, with starlight on a falling bomb. Even as Vuong leads you through every pleasure a body deserves and all the ensuing grief, these poems restore you with hope, that godforsaken thing—alive, singing along to the radio, suddenly sufficient.
—Traci Brimhall, Our Lady of the Ruins