Franny Choi
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“Wearing a crown of sonnets like a dime store tiara, Franny Choi’s cyborg cephalopod is a creature of unending amazements, unfurling tendril after tendril—some surgical, some sensual, some weaponized, some rubberized—brandishing hypodermics, vibrators, cigarettes, smartphones, or simply snapping in time to the beat. With uncanny tonal and technical dexterity, she can play upon your emotions, tickle your sweet spot, then press all of your buttons at once. At once raw and radiant, these brilliant poems are at their most human when they assert their alienness, at their most ferocious when they dare to be vulnerable.” —Monica Youn, author of Blackacre
View playlistThe Language of Sci-Fi
Envisioning a world transformed, science fiction transforms language itself: inventing words, making old words new, or expanding their possibilities. It's unsurprising, then, that poets should make use of scifi images—aliens, cyborgs, dinosaurs, and time machines—to speak, as good science fiction should, to subjects far beyond them.
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A small selection of phenomenal writing from Korean-American poets writing today.
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