Ah this has made me feel a bit sticky with things I want to read and reminders of colours and grief and things long forgotten. Thank you again. Thought provoking writing.
Oh thank you! I worried that it was too sad, or critical - I do really admire Ocean Vuong’s work! - but it made me think about the intersection of trauma or grief and, I don’t know... aesthetics? Beauty? because that comes up a lot in his writing.
Your writing about it is beautiful in itself. It’s a book that has fallen onto my path a few times but I’ve skirted round it, perhaps not yet ready for its weight, but this has made me shift it up my list.
@Cloverstroud writes powerfully about the intersection of trauma / grief, colour and love in her book ‘The Red of My Blood’.
Ah this has made me feel a bit sticky with things I want to read and reminders of colours and grief and things long forgotten. Thank you again. Thought provoking writing.
Oh thank you! I worried that it was too sad, or critical - I do really admire Ocean Vuong’s work! - but it made me think about the intersection of trauma or grief and, I don’t know... aesthetics? Beauty? because that comes up a lot in his writing.
Your writing about it is beautiful in itself. It’s a book that has fallen onto my path a few times but I’ve skirted round it, perhaps not yet ready for its weight, but this has made me shift it up my list.
@Cloverstroud writes powerfully about the intersection of trauma / grief, colour and love in her book ‘The Red of My Blood’.