We often look at queerness being innately faulty, that it's the queerness that makes these lives tragic...But in fact it's hegemonic masculinity and this patriarchal structure that made these lives lose themselves within it, and so the tragedy is America.
Vuong puts language in careful and powerful proximity to itself and 'embraces the quiet between words...' Writing as a poet is very akin to chemistry, and words have always lived this way for me.
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