27 November 2021

Soft Science, by Franny Choi

 I'm pretty sure that I was introduced to Franny Choi when Anjuli Raza Kolb quoted her poem "The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On", and I looked it up and read it over and over and over, and saw this  collection at the bookstore a few days later and of course bought it. 

 

  These are smart, tough, and deeply unsettling poems. They bring together the human/cyborg distinction, and stereotypes about Asian women, and dissociation as a response to violence and awfulness, in really remarkable ways. Extremely powerful stuff.

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