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Salvage: Wisconsin Poetry Series

Autor Hedgie Choi
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 apr 2025
Part blasphemous prayer, part stand-up comedy, wholly unique, this breathtaking collection is by turns devastating, funny, and startling. 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299351847
ISBN-10: 029935184X
Pagini: 100
Ilustrații: 0 illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Wisconsin Poetry Series


Notă biografică

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. 

Extras

“Not so scary now
that science has discovered
your feathers”

—Excerpt from “Tyrannosaur”

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

“Delightfully spiteful. . . . Choi’s voice has the defiant confidence of youth, which we all need exposure to. The poems are a little bit insulting . . . in the most appealing way, like an argument that actually changes your mind.”

“Choi is funny. In her hands, wit marries an absorbing lyricism, with endings that not only hit the beat on both measures, but reverberate and sometimes sting. . . . Choi’s twenty-first-century sensibilities and poetics are expansive. . . . This is a refreshing debut.”

“Inventive, funny, and collaborative.”

“I was blown away by the surrealism mixed with heart mixed with humor mixed with lucid narratives. This book is fast-paced and strange, funny and quirky and tender.”

“Hedgie’s poems treat our lives with the disrespect they deserve.”

“Meet Hedgie Choi, in Salvage, lurking like someone with blue hair, using droll commentary and humor to confront poetry’s great subjects—love, death, and mystery: ‘I am afraid of mystery / but by Mystery I was made / to be afraid.’ These poems thrill with deceptive simplicity, subversion, and candor, jolted by biting critiques of culture, in a tone as accessible as it is original. She writes, for example, with a wink and a nod, ‘I’m too afraid of pain to eat Chinese food / under five dollars. I’m going to live forever.’ I hope she does.”

“Now that this book is out, I do worry about my life. How will I do dishes? Bathe? Sleep? When instead I can read Salvage. And you’re thinking, ugh, another hyperbolic blurb. But the joke is on you. I am literally going to lose my job for my refusal to do anything besides read these poems. And it scares me. Haha no no, stop, I am not scared. I am in the company of my favorite poems. How could I be scared?”