The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi is a poetry collection published by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2022. This edition comprises 132 pages and is presented in English. The book features a range of poems that address historical and impending apocalypses, reflecting on the responsibilities we hold toward one another and envisioning pathways for collective survival.
Readers will find that Choi’s work navigates through various themes, including death, grief, and loss, while also exploring the experiences of marginalized communities. The poems exhibit a unique blend of narrative styles, moving through time from historical events to future scenarios, and delve into the complexities of togetherness among diverse groups. With a focus on both personal and universal experiences, this collection aims to chart new paths toward hope amidst the challenges of an apocalyptic world.
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Named A Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub * Vulture * Time * A PW 2022 Holiday Gift Pick
One of: Time’s “100 Must-Read Books of 2022” * NPR’s 2022 “Books We Love” Vulture’s “10 Best Books of 2022”
A Goodreads Readers Choice Award Semifinalist
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.
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