Overview

Part blasphemous prayer, part stand-up comedy, wholly unique, this breathtaking collection is by turns devastating, funny, and startling. “Some things happened to me in my formative years that I don’t want to tell you about,” writes Hedgie Choi, “but some things happened to you too.” Whether the site of exploration is Star Trek, Leonard Cohen, roadkill, or etymology, sublime bewilderment rubs shoulders with half-buried humiliations and accidental salvations. The voice in these poems tenderly and tenaciously inquires into how to survive—not how to survive violence but how to survive surviving. Choi is the rare poet who can elicit laughter, sober reflection, and wry bemusement all within the space of a few lines—or sometimes only one. This is a collection that you can read through in a single sitting, then return to again and again. “I’m half teenage girls / and half grown men,” she writes—to which we can only wonder, aren't we all? 

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Author:   Hedgie Choi
Publisher:   University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint:   University of Wisconsin Press
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780299351847

ISBN 10:   029935184
Pages:   104
Publication Date:   31 May 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Salvage . . . Laying Down the Groundwork Mutualism Freaking Out Equal and Opposite Party Time Never Mind The Listening Section Brutal Honesty Nourished and Enriched Tyrannosaur Affirmations Phases . . . Holiday The Happy Middle In Some Ways I Have Changed In My Natural Habitat Transformation What’s Up Buttercup Orchestrated Intent Practice Epimetheus at the Tattoo Parlor . . . Prometheus to His Liver Growing Overnight When Someone Says a Place on Stage and Only a Handful of People in the Audience Emit an Uncertain WOOOOOOO Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You Have a Nice Day Temptation Martha’s Vineyard In That Life Close Friends Epic Botched Corinthians, Retconned Corinthians Testimony . . . Tenderly For Seeing in the Dark Horror Minus Terror Volunteering Vespertine Is the Name of a Restaurant in LA with an 18-Plus-Course Tasting Menu Child of God Poem for Jackson What about Hell Then When I Wake up from a Bad Dream I Am Ravenous Ichor, Meaning the Fluid That Flows like Blood in the Veins of Gods, as in Greek Mythology, or, a Watery Discharge from a Wound Lessons . . . Archetype Summer in Austin, TX Manners Plagiarism New Year’s Eve Last Night Will You Disabuse Me Still . . . Acknowledgments Notes

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""Hedgie's poems treat our lives with the disrespect they deserve.""--Jackson Holbert

Author Information

Hedgie Choi is the translator of Pillar of Books by Moon Bo Young and the cotranslator of Hysteria by Kim Yideum, which won the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize and the National Translation Award. Her poetry can be found in Poetry, Catapult, West Branch, and elsewhere. Her fiction can be found in NOON, American Short Fiction, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere.

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