The world keeps ending, and the world goes on
Choi, Franny2023
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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.
Main title:
The world keeps ending, and the world goes on / Franny Choi.
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Imprint:
New York : Ecco, 2023.New York : Ecco, 2023.
Collation:
144 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780063240087 (hbk)
Dewey class:
811 CHO
Language:
English
BRN:
2757408