| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
132 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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still image sti rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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Women lcdgt |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-129). |
| 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 |
The world keeps ending, and the world goes on -- 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 can't sing along to -- I have bad news and bad news, which do you want first -- Grief is a thing with tense issues -- Comfort poem -- 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 -- Upon learning that some Korean War refugees used partially detonated napalm canisters as cooking fuel -- Upon learning that some Korean War refugees used partially detonated napalm canisters as cooking fuel -- Upon learning that some Korean War refugees used partially detonated napalm canisters as cooking fuel -- Unlove poem -- How to let go of the world -- Aaron says the world is upside down -- Field trip to the Museum of human history -- On how -- Toward grace -- Prayer for the untranslated testimony -- Coalitional cento -- With mouths and mushrooms, the earth will accept our apology -- Wildlife -- Things that already go past borders -- Demilitarized zone -- Dispatches from a future great-great-granddaughter -- Look -- Doom -- Waste -- Protest poem. |
| Subject |
Marginality, Social -- Poetry.
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Cooperativeness -- Poetry.
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Cooperation -- Poetry.
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Apocalypse in literature.
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| Genre |
Poetry.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| ISBN |
9780063240087 (hardcover) : $25.99 |
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0063240084 (hardcover) : $25.99 |
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