One daughter is worth ten sons / Jiwon Choi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Choi, Jiwon, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Korea Society (New York, N.Y.) (donor)

Physical Description:

72 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, New York : Hanging Loose Press, [2017]

Contents:

Koreans in Proverbs: Expect a Petulant God 9

1 How Will I Know I Was Alive?

All Roads Lead to Rockaway Beach 143rd 13

Of the Wild 16

How Will I Know I was Alive? 17

On the Island of Gleaming Blackness 20

Rat 21

Time Works 23

Cortes Takes the "R" Train 24

Memoir Mori 26

I Take the "D" Train 27

Let's Go Out Tonight 28

In Korean Years 29

Back to 1951 32

Curse 33

The Poet 35

Koreans in Proverbs: Carpe Diem 36

2 No Regrets

I Pay My Book Fine 39

Anne Sexton & Flying Monkeys 40

The Hag 41

On Accepting the Witch's Invitation to Tea 43

An Account of Loneliness 44

Hiroshima, As Told by the Village Prostitute 45

The World is Flat 46

Divine Purpose 47

Still Life 48

"Jane Austen, reconsider" 49

No Regrets 50

1977: Kiddieland, the Devil and My Dorothy Hamill Bangs 52

Opus 55

Peony 57

Koreans in Proverbs: You Start Real Close 58

3 Korean Grocery

Mary Talks to God 63

Golem 65

Rodney King, Los Angeles 1992 66

Fat and Dust 67

Korean Grocery 68

Koreans in Proverbs: One Daughter Is Worth Ten Sons 69

"I find my father's magazines" 71

Day of the Dead 72.

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

9781934909980

193490998X

OCLC:

979567414