Floating, Brilliant, Gone - Franny Choi

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Résumé :
In her electrifying debut, Franny Choi leads readers through the complex landscapes of absence, memory, and identity. Beginning in loss and ending in reflective elation, Floating, Brilliant, Gone explores life as a brief impossibility, infinite / until it isn't.
Punctuated with haunting illustrations by Jess X. Snow, Choi's poems read like lucid dreams that jolt awake at the most unexpected moments. Floating, Brilliant, Gone (2014) is Choi's debut poetry collection published by Write Bloody Publishing....

Biographie:
She is the author of two poetry collections, Soft Science (Alice James Books) and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing), as well as a chapbook, Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press). Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review, the New England Review. She is a Kundiman Fellow, a 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, a recipient of Princeton's Holmes National Poetry Prize, and a graduate of the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers Program. She is the founder of Brew & Forge and co-hosts the podcast VS alongside Danez Smith. She currently teaches at Williams College as a Levitt Artist-in-Residence....

Sommaire:

Floating, Brilliant, Gone guides readers through a profound evolution, leading them from the depths of sorrow to a state of contemplative euphoria.

The verses woven throughout the collection create a narrative akin to the unpredictable awakenings of lucid dreams, transporting readers to moments of heightened awareness at unforeseen junctures.

In a spellbinding juxtaposition, Choi's electrifying debut echoes with an almost spectral quality, emerging as if a phantom from the recesses of memory. Through her fiercely imaginative prose, she offers both an intimately personal and curiously recognizable window into the spectrum of human encounters and emotions.

The book stands as a testament to Choi's ability to conjure the enigmatic, inviting readers to venture alongside her into the uncharted territories of the mind and heart.