Instances
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Instances

Selected Poems

  1. 144 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Instances

Selected Poems

About this book

Alert and streetwise, but tuned into the undercurrent of things, Choi's poetry creates environments at once familiar but dreamlike, marked by a preternatural clarity. Favoring imagistic condensation and formal trimness, Choi's poetry possesses a highly-suggestive, allusive intensity that locates the startling within the familiar. Always rooted in the here-and-now, Choi's speakers are simultaneously outside it, questioning the propriety of our taken-for-granted arrangements. Delicate and wistful, this poetry has the tensile strength to address itself to the deepest challenges of human experience: as Choi writes, with characteristic (and deceptive) off-handedness, "hey abyss." In a world of inconstancy and ceaseless transformation, Choi's poetry forgoes easy consolations and instead offers poetry of the highest order as the only consolation. Reading it offers an almost vertiginous sense of the variousness of experience. As Brenda Hillman observes, "There is a quality of imagination in her work that is still a rare thing in poetry."

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Information

Publisher
Parlor Press, LLC
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781602352346
eBook ISBN
9781602352353
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Creative Writing
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. CONTENTS
  5. PREFATORY NOTE
  6. Selected Poems
  7. MOTES
  8. WATCHING DEER
  9. IN THREE MINUTES
  10. BARBED WIRE IN A STREAM
  11. A THIEF CAUGHT AT DUSK
  12. JUST A GLIMMER
  13. "THE AIRPLANE TOOK OFF.THE AIRPLANE DISAPPEARED."
  14. THE FIVE-THOUSAND-YEAR-OLD HEARTIā€™VE SWALLOWED
  15. AND BLINKS
  16. A TOWN WITH A TRUMPET CREEPER
  17. WINDOW WASHER
  18. THE ABSENT TREE
  19. SNOW
  20. HOTEL CALIFORNIA, A PUDDLE
  21. DEER CLIMBING A BAMBOO POLE
  22. SPRING RAIN SHOWER
  23. FOREST
  24. MIRROR, MIRROR ANDMIRROR IN THE MIRROR
  25. WINDOW
  26. A THICKET OF WILD ROSES
  27. ANGEL
  28. ON THE WAY TO BUY MEAT
  29. CANNA AND THE SWORD
  30. ROOM
  31. A FOREST OF DONKEY EARS
  32. WITH A MOUNTAINSIDE CHERRY TREEAND THE SHADOW OF A WOMAN
  33. A DANCE WITH THE WALL
  34. HER LIPS ARE WARM WHILE YOURS ARE COLD
  35. ARABESQUE
  36. THE WHALE SASHIMI RESTAURANT
  37. THE EVENINGā€™S SUPERMARKET
  38. RED TUBS
  39. WATERMELON PATCH AND THE MOON
  40. AN APPLE SELLER SCATTEREDIN FRONT OF A MUSSO
  41. OLD WOMAN
  42. WHILE SLIPPING ON STOCKINGS
  43. BLOOD
  44. LEBANESE EMOTION
  45. CRIMSON FIELD
  46. IN FRONT OF MY OLD HOUSE
  47. RED MARBLE
  48. INTENT ON FORGETTING THE BODY
  49. A MEAL AT THE AQUARIUM RESTAURANT
  50. A SWAMP AND A POEM
  51. TIGERS IN THE SUNLIGHT
  52. I TALKED WITH GEESE IN IOWA
  53. SMELL
  54. PYONGJOM
  55. CRABS WITH ONE LEG INSIDE THEIR HOLES
  56. WHEN I WAS TREMBLING LIKE A LEAF
  57. FROG! GRASSHOPPER! DUNG BEETLE!
  58. AN ARROW LYING ON THE ROAD
  59. MY LANGUAGE AND ITS MOMENTS
  60. NOTES
  61. Series page
  62. Back cover