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emmylunaa's review
challenging
reflective
tense
4.5
I really enjoyed this poetry collection. I feel I’ll need to read it several more times to fully understand each poem. Overall, I recommend.
literacyarc's review
4.5
a fan of franny choi since i was pouring over soft science for my capstone. powerful, raw, and very korean- my favorite things
kdawn999's review
5.0
A brilliant work, one that coheres thematically as a collection. The language is subtle, sharp, and playful with rhyme. I love the journey through apocalypses that have happened, ongoing apocalypses, and apocalypses to come. As we learn from the notes at the end, most of these poems are in conversation with lines from other poems—a twist that enriches here. I’ll be reading whatever I can find from Franny Choi.
wanderlust_romance's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
Is it the end of the world as we know it? If so, why does it feel like we’ve been here before? How do individuals contend with their place in this cycle of anger, violence, revolt, and hope? This collection of poetry is filled with so many raw emotions. The poems examine and reflect on a multitude of themes - colonization, the Korean War, racial consciousness, environmental degradation, the COVID-19 pandemic, SA, gun violence - with much thoughtfulness and wisdom.
If you read Mohammed El-Kurd’s Rifqa and connected to the juxtaposition of nature, destruction, and resistance, then this collection by Franny Choi will also satisfy. It’s an honest reflection on the state of the world: it’s (sometimes) all kinds of awful, and yet we keep moving through it. Excellent on audio and read by the author.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Colonisation, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Racism, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Genocide