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    [and time erodes like thunder]
    [and time erodes like thunder]
    [and time erodes like thunder]
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    [and time erodes like thunder]

    By Zoë Luh

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAssure Press
    Release dateApr 1, 2020
    ISBN9781733589758
    [and time erodes like thunder]
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    Zoë Luh

    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.

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      [and time erodes like thunder] - Zoë Luh

      [and time erodes like thunder]

      [AND TIME ERODES LIKE THUNDER]

      ZOË LUH

      Assure Press

      Copyright © 2020 by Zoë Luh

      All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be performed, recorded, used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the written consent of the author and the permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and review.

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      An imprint of Assure Press Publishing & Consulting, LLC

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      Publisher’s Note: Assure Press books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. For information please visit the website.

      [and time erodes like thunder] / Zoë Luh. — 1st ed.

      ISBN-13: 978-1-7335897-4-1

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2020936180

      eISBN-978-1-7335897-5-8

      PREFACE

      content warning for sexual assault, death, and medical violence. please take care of yourself and be gentle.

      CONTENTS

      Home

      [fall]

      I wake with tears longer than his hair

      Ode to Disrespect

      Tricube in si-lence

      Trial of the Cannibal

      Instead of doctoring viscera, I doctor the souls of others. -after Andy Sia

      [winter]

      winter in Amber

      Dear Amber…

      The beginning is always frozen…

      I dream you are lying in a pool of blood…

      I wish you were here…

      Deep violet girl says…

      Your dear friend Ruben died this week…

      Tricube in mourning

      explaining depression as something more than sadness

      Clay

      Dirge to seeds of blood

      [spring]

      the news article reads:

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

      i come from strong women and them from me

      thyme

      alternate universe in which right now i’m happy

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

      Tricube in tsu-nami

      [summer]

      fern

      Elegy of Summer

      grief is a gift

      in late summer

      Tricube in ten-der

      re-examination

      About the Author

      Home

      comfort and this still

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