The world keeps ending, and the world goes on / Franny Choi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Choi, Franny, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marginality, Social--Poetry.

Marginality, Social.

Cooperation--Poetry.

Cooperation.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

132 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]

Summary:

"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. They explore narrative distances and queer linearity, investigating on microscopic scales before soaring towards the universal. Wrestling with the 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""--Front dust jacket flap.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Catastrophe Is Next to Godliness

Disaster Means "Without a Star"

Poem with an End in Sight

Celebrate Good Times

Good Morning America

It Is What It Is

Science Fiction Poetry

We Used Our Words We Used What Words We Had

Danez Says They Want to Lose Themselves in Bops They an't Sing Along To

I Have Bad News and Bad News, Which Do You ant First

Grief Is a Thing with Tense Issues

Comfort Poem

II. Process Note

Who Died and Made You American

Poem in Place of a Poem

Rememory

Amid Rising Tensions on the Korean Peninsula

Disinheritance

September 2001

I Learned That I Was Beautiful

In the Aftermath of the Unforgivable, I Raise My Doomed, Green Head

Upon Learning That Some Korean War Refugees Used Partially Detonated Napalm Canisters as Cooking Fuel

Unlove Poem.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780063240087

0063240084

OCLC:

1291876979