A wide-ranging debut collection of poems exploring loss, love, queerness, and Korean-American identity. Franny Choi lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she has spent the last three years working in youth, education, and grassroots organizing spaces. This feels like a pretty standard debut collection to me. Between the pages is a heart that takes a hit and then hits back, a breathless throat that croaks its way up to a howl and then a steady hum. Like a ghost speaking from the ruins of memory, Choi's e. Beginning at loss and ending in reflective elation, Floating, Brilliant, Gone moves steadily through the many complicated textures of identity, anxiety, and absence. In, Rick Benjamin, State Poet of Rhode Island, is a beautiful, fearlessly loaded weapon. There are flashes of brilliance, but Choi's voice as a poet is clearly still developing, and while a few of the poems are connected by recurring themes, most of them seem more random, like she just took everything she had written and liked up until that point and put it all together in one place - which can't really be faulted because that's essentially how debut collections tend to work. Choi's poems flow like lucid dreams that jolt awake at the most unexpected moments. I gasped, smiled, cringed so many times on so many pages. Refresh and try again. I read this as a follow-up to Choi's most recent book, Soft Science. I am so team Franny Choi and this book convinced me that I need to start reading and writing more poetry. She has published many poems focusing on social activism and equality. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. skillfully addresses trauma, identity, memory, and grief, positioning the poet as both witness to and evidence of loss, daring the past to blink first. Beginning in loss and ending in reflective elation, Floating, Brilliant, Gone explores life as a brief impossibility, "infinite / until it isn't." To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. She has competed in many slam poetry competitions, where she became increasingly known as a poet. I loved this. Filter by post type. March 24th 2014 I won't say I loved every poem; there were a couple of only okay ones here and there. [8], Choi promotes social activism through her poetry and writing. At the book's core are explorations of loss, identity, love, the body, and their relationship to each other, carried along in a tide of words that swells and recedes with dreamlike elegance. Quote. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Punctuated with haunting illustrations by Jess X. Between the pages is a heart that takes a hit and then hits back, a breathless throat that croaks its way up to a howl and then a steady hum. The collection is moody and obscure, and haunted by the conditions that seem to drive the poet Choi toward the quiet, furious, lonely act of unmuddying. Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2017. Text. A few weeks ago, five hundred-plus people – teachers, students, union organizers, artists, and allies – came together in…, I’ve been enjoying the teaching materials and modus operandi of the Zinn Education Project ever since I discovered them back when we were working on the Firebrands book. There are some misses, some pieces that don't feel as strongly crafted as others, but again, they're all different enough to keep readers interested. There's a problem loading this menu right now. In her electrifying debut, Franny Choi leads readers through the complex landscapes of absence, memory, and identity. Floating, Brilliant, Gone - Kindle edition by Choi, Franny. Using a language that is as volatile as the world it tries to occupy

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