Salvage / Hedgie Choi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Choi, Hedgie, author.

Series:

Wisconsin poetry series

Language:

English

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

vii, 85 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Broadly, the poems are about what being unthrilled about "salvation" in its various forms. As in, wow, this is what's left, after violence/ trauma/ fall from the ideal? Ew, no thanks. Where do you go from there? You laugh about it, and then you abruptly stop laughing, and then you laugh about it some more. These are friendly fun poems about some horrible stuff that mostly happens off the page"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Salvage

Laying down the groundwork

Mutualism

Freaking out

Equal and opposite

Party time

Never mind

The listening section

Brutal honesty

Nourished and enriched

Tyrannosaur

Affirmations

Phases

Holiday

The happy middle

In some ways I have changed

In my natural habitat

Transformation

What's up buttercup

Orchestrated intent

Practice

Epimetheus at the tattoo parlor

Prometheus to his liver growing overnight

When someone says a place on stage and only a handful of people in the audience emit an uncertain WOOOOOOO

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you have a nice day

Temptation

Martha's vineyard

In that life

Close friends

Epic

Botched Corinthians, retconned Corinthians

Testimony

Tenderly

For seeing in the dark

Horror minus terror

Volunteering

Vespertine is the name of a restaurant in LA with an 18-plus-course tasting menu

Child of god

Poem for Jackson

What about hell then

When I wake up from a bad dream I am ravenous

Ichor, mean the fluid that flows like blood in the veins of gods, as in Greek mythology, or, a watery discharge from a wound

Lessons

Archetype

Summer in Austin, TX

Manners

Plagiarism

New Year's Eve

Last night

Will you disabuse me

Still.

ISBN:

9780299351847

029935184X

OCLC:

1451105019