This is another book that I picked up from the Dark NoiseCollective slam poetry event. (I wrote about a different book from thatevent earlier.) Back for more poetry!
Again, to speak briefly about the event, I absolutely adored seeing Franny Choi read her poems. Since this was a group event, she selected poems that mentioned the other members of the Dark Noise Collective. Which was really sweet and cute. There was one poem where she mentions going to the funeral of a friend’s grandmother that made my partner cry (surprise, it’s even in this book).
This was a really incredible and insightful work. The poems relate to the end of the world, but the little ends of the worlds that surround you every day. Especially how the world ends all the time for women and racial/ethnic minorities and queer people. And we somehow find a way to go on. The poems span a huge time frame from comfort women used by armies during World War II up until the present day and even into the future. A lot of them are incredibly personal and are about a partner Choi lost a while ago.
The sum total is that the work is personal while expansive
and encompasses many different identities and experiences. I think if I go back
and read this years from now I’ll pick up on different aspects, and resonate
with different poems. A really incredible work.
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