I'm choosing not to rate this. I don't read much poetry and don't feel comfortable rating something I didn't understand, because at the end of the day, I really did not understand 90% of what I read here. There were a few poems in this book that hit me really emotionally, but for the most part I just didn't understand the point.

I'm really interested in trying his novel and seeing if Vuong's prose works better for me than his poetry, but I'm still very early in my poetry journey so I'm not going to try to judge something that went over my head. While I didn't dislike it, my enjoyment level was fairly low, but one of the poems almost made me cry so perhaps it evens out.