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Cuban punks spiking each others hair

Photographed by Samuel Reina Calvo (source)

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“Whatever is not yours: Let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness and benefit.”

— Buddha

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from "Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke" published by Diode Editions

I really like this poem, mainly because I want to donate my body to science when I die/become a cadaver, and I also have a scar down the middle of my chest from heart surgery.

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Revisions is out!

Revisions (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018) is a chapbook of poetry trying to reconcile grief and desire within the body, how to explore grief and seek healing for ourselves and others. Poems from the chapbook have appeared in Diagram, Superstition Review, the Collagist, and elsewhere.

Praise for Revisions:

“Eric Tran’s Revisions revises more than words. These poems, with their restless forms and lexicons, needle themselves through the psyche; they suture and sear, harboring speakers of myriad aftermaths. True to a physician’s gaze, these poems, in their unflinching obsession with the renewal and failure of bodies, both tender and visceral at once, plant Eric Tran firmly in the long tradition of healer-wordsmiths, right alongside William Carlos Williams, Fady Joudah, and Rafael Campo. I love these poems. They teach me that revision, if nothing else, is a way to stave off forgetting, is a second chance. As such, how lucky we are to read Tran’s poems this early in what will soon be an unforgettable body of work.”

—Ocean Vuong, author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds

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#poetry #chapbook #medicine #ocean vuong