Yeoun: Poems of What Remained

By Rajesh Debbarma

Some things do not end with a conversation.

They end with a cup left on the counter. A door that begins to sound differently. A name that one morning stops feeling like it belongs to anyone in particular.

YEOUN: Poems of What Remained is a 44-poem collection tracing the quiet arc of something that began without announcement and ended the same way. Structured in four parts (What Began Without Beginning - The Weight of What We Couldn't Say - Learning the Shape of Loss - After), these poems move through the full interior geography of an unnamed connection: its unspoken warmth, its slow unraveling, and the long ordinary process of learning to exist after it.

This is not a book about heartbreak in the dramatic sense. It is a book about the moments that surround it, the ones most writing passes over. The pause before a sentence. The slight delay before someone answers. The warmth that lingers in a glass after the hand that held it is gone.

Written with restraint and sensory precision, YEOUN speaks to anyone who has felt something deeply and found no exact language for it until now.

This collection is for you if:
You have carried something quietly and never found the right words for it
You love contemporary poetry that trusts the reader to feel without being told what to feel
You are a fan of Ocean Vuong, Warsan Shire, Mary Oliver, or Rupi Kaur
You believe the most honest writing lives in the smallest and most specific details
You have stood in a room after someone left it and felt the weight of what remained

"The space between what is felt and what is said is where most of a life happens."
- Rajesh Debbarma

YEOUN is a book you will return to. Not to relive the loss, but to confirm that someone else understood it completely.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H3T2WBC3
• ISBN13: 9798199172097
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 58 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"