The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On - Franny Choi

Category: Adults, Contemporary, Poetry
Language: English
Keywords: Adult Asian Literature Contemporary Dystopia Fiction LGBT Poetry Queer Race

Written by Franny Choi
Read by Franny Choi
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi’s third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival.

Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On reminds us that apocalypse has already come in myriad ways for marginalized peoples.

With lyric and tonal dexterity, these poems spin backwards and forwards in time–from Korean comfort women during World War II, to the precipice of climate crisis, to children wandering a museum in the future. These poems explore narrative distances and queer linearity, investigating on microscopic scales before soaring towards the universal. As she wrestles with the daily griefs and distances of this apocalyptic world, Choi also imagines what togetherness–between Black and Asian and other marginalized communities, between living organisms, between children of calamity and conquest–could look like. Bringing together Choi’s signature speculative imagination with even greater musicality than her previous work, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On ultimately charts new paths toward hope in the aftermaths, and visions for our collective survival.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
Release date: 11-01-22