Zoe Tuck Invites All To Drift On Her Stream Of Thought In “Bedroom Vowel.”
“Bedroom Vowel” is an ode to the epic responsibilities of writing as an artistry: shine light of beauty on ugly stitches of the human experience.
To be is to first be born. Zoe Tuck – author of “Terror Metrix,” “Vape Cloud of Unknowing,” “The Book of Bella,” and “Bedroom Vowel” – was born a writer in the thrush and throttle of her expansive early life. Having planted seeds in Texas, California, and of current Massachusetts, Tuck has woven the riches of locational variety into herself and poetry. Her traveling background is vibrant in her writing, for she floats from medium to medium, in a constant intrapersonal dialogue of deep poetic prose.
If mundanity was a person, Zoe Tuck would have befriended them during her early days. She would be the type of honest friend who uplifts your weaknesses and swaddles your strengths close to the heart, placing you in the spotlight of her adoration despite your horrors. In her most recent book, The Bedroom Vowel, Tuck operates intimately with the passage of time and blinding awareness of being alive through the vehicles of politics, media, queer theory, and personal relationships under the drenched umbrella of the pandemic and its aftermath.
This collection of poetry is so naked and raw, as an audience it’s as if we are viewing the world through Tuck’s consciousness – we are studying the spotlight. From her poem “Art Criticism,” she writes: "Sometimes I mean to write “criticism,” but it comes out as a poem.” Bedroom Vowel is a delicate extended critique of great cohesivity. Discussing personhood as solitude, personhood as danger, personhood as change, and personhood as a state, Tuck has forged a collection of earnest vulnerability.
To be is to first be born. To poet is to first be. To speak is to first listen. To teach is to first learn. In light of all that I’ve preached, I am eager, I am humbled, I am grateful to introduce you all to Zoe Tuck, the voice behind the brilliant, the daring, the vital Bedroom Vowel.
