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Named A Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub * Vulture * Time *Â A
PW 2022 Holiday Gift Pick One of: Time's "100 Must-Read
Books of 2022" * NPR's 2022 "Books We Love" Vulture's "10 Best
Books of 2022" A Goodreads Readers Choice Award Semifinalist From
acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends
of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi’s third book features
poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings
on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our
collective survival. Many have called our time dystopian.
But The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On reminds us
that apocalypse has already come in myriad ways for marginalized
peoples. With lyric and tonal dexterity, these poems spin backwards
and forwards in time--from Korean comfort women during World War
II, to the precipice of climate crisis, to children wandering a
museum in the future. These poems explore narrative distances and
queer linearity, investigating on microscopic scales before soaring
towards the universal. As she wrestles with the daily griefs and
distances of this apocalyptic world, Choi also imagines what
togetherness--between Black and Asian and other marginalized
communities, between living organisms, between children of calamity
and conquest--could look like. Bringing together Choi's signature
speculative imagination with even greater musicality than her
previous work, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes
On ultimately charts new paths toward hope in the aftermaths,
and visions for our collective survival.Â
In her electrifying debut, Franny Choi leads readers through the
complex landscapes of absence, memory, and identity. Beginning in
loss and ending in reflective elation, Floating, Brilliant, Gone
explores life as a brief impossibility, "infinite / until it
isn't." Punctuated with haunting illustrations by Jess X. Chen,
Choi's poems read like lucid dreams that jolt awake at the most
unexpected moments.
Named A Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub * Vulture * Time * A PW
2022 Holiday Gift Pick One of: Time's "100 Must-Read Books of 2022"
* NPR's 2022 "Books We Love" Vulture's "10 Best Books of 2022" A
Goodreads Readers Choice Award Semifinalist From acclaimed poet
Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds-past,
present, and future. Choi's third book features poems about
historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our
responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective
survival. Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps
Ending, and the World Goes On reminds us that apocalypse has
already come in myriad ways for marginalized peoples. With lyric
and tonal dexterity, these poems spin backwards and forwards in
time--from Korean comfort women during World War II, to the
precipice of climate crisis, to children wandering a museum in the
future. These poems explore narrative distances and queer
linearity, investigating on microscopic scales before soaring
towards the universal. As she wrestles with the daily griefs and
distances of this apocalyptic world, Choi also imagines what
togetherness--between Black and Asian and other marginalized
communities, between living organisms, between children of calamity
and conquest--could look like. Bringing together Choi's signature
speculative imagination with even greater musicality than her
previous work, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
ultimately charts new paths toward hope in the aftermaths, and
visions for our collective survival.
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