With unabridged fondness for the undulating oceans, swallowed darknesses, and sonorant stars, Seattle's Youth Poet Laureate Sah Pham explores inter-generational and imaginative love in her debut, coming-of-age style poetry collection.

LOVELIKE is a memoir of softenings, written to hold holy the Vietnamese-American experience of place, identity, and belonging. In discovering what love is and could be, Sah Pham’s poems breathe life to a transfigured love that is parsed to hold friends, mothers, daughters, lovers, selves, & the divine in her spanse of a sleeping sentence. Such that what remains is a question of love in practical synonyms: what is it, how can we hold it, let go of it, live with it, and ultimately, be it.

*Available June 13, 2o23 everywhere books are sold.

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