The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on Choi Franny
Named A Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub * Vulture * Time * A PW 2022 Holiday Gift PickFrom acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, and future.…
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Named A Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub * Vulture * Time * A PW 2022 Holiday Gift PickFrom 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,
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