We Were All Someone Else Yesterday

We Were All Someone Else Yesterday

by Omar Holmon

Overview

Omar Holmon’s debut book We Were All Someone Else Yesterday, is a book of poems and essays that are drenched in both sadness and unmistakable humor.

These works urgently embrace growth in the face of grief. After the loss of his mother, Holmon loses touch with reality until he re-learns how to live by immersing himself in popular culture.

Teeming with references that are palpable, and emotions that pull the heart, Holmon’s debut poetry collection feels profoundly warm and longingly familiar.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781943735686
Publisher: Button Poetry
Publication date: 05/12/2020
Series: Button Poetry
Pages: 104
Sales rank: 490,929
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Omar Holmon is an Alumni poet of Rutgers University and has competed in slam poetry for numerous years with two final stage appearances at the National Poetry Slam. He has been featured on Button Poetry, Tedx, and a commercial for Laphroaig whiskey (we outchea). In 2014 Omar Holmon Co-founded the Black Nerd Problems website with William Evans.

Read an Excerpt

From "Precious Little Life":

I am twenty six

And writing a poem about the different names

given to describe a group of animals.

My teammate points out that

a group of elephants is called a memory.

Elephants have been known to die

and remain

standing

well after death

I am twenty six

and Mom is lying down in a hospital bed

Elephants will travel to where members of their heard

have died and mourn their loss

I am twenty six

and migrating to the hospital for two weeks

naïve to the inevitable

I’ve just turned twenty seven

and the loss of my mother

has become the elephant in the room

Migration becomes second nature to me now

I move out of our apartment,

I move in with a friend,

I can move everything but

on

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