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About Floating, Brilliant, Gone
Product Description 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. Chen, Choi's poems read like lucid dreams that jolt awake at the most unexpected moments. Review " Franny Choi's debut poetry collection Floating, Brilliant, Gone skillfully addresses trauma, identity, memory, and grief, positioning the poet as both witness to and evidence of loss, daring the past to blink first. Jess X. Chen's illustrations - birds and bones, trees and feathers - highlight the uneasy ethereality that runs through the collection. Together, the words and images evoke the relationship between absence and permanence, a haunted house with windows opening onto surprising moments of beauty and joy." -- Muzzle Magazine From the Back Cover "French philosopher Jacques Derrida once said we must write and speak of the dead 'just enough to prevent silence from completely taking over.' In Floating, Brilliant, Gone, Franny Choi names and praises loss with striking wit and candor; nothing stays gone. Her poems dare us all to live, live, live." -- Rachel McKibbens, author of Into the Dark & Emptying Field "Hold Franny Choi's fine first book, Floating, Brilliant, Gone, in your hand as if you mean to flip it, spine-down, like a deck of cards, released into the air at the speed of shuffling. Look down into hard-driving poems, poems in stanzas, in dialogue, verse paragraphs, images nearer to what she describes: butterflies, mantis shrimp, an octopus. After that first sleight of hand, read about loss at a young age, about the grieving, healing & love that come after them; about how family & culture form our identity; about race; about the body; most of all, about witnessing. Franny Choi writes rangy, risky poems. This is a breath-taking debut by a gifted young poet, who is only at the beginning of her transit. How lucky for the rest of us to be around for the ride." -- Rick Benjamin, State Poet of Rhode Island "Floating, Brilliant, Gone is a beautiful, fearlessly loaded weapon. Choi's bullets aim to seed the forehead of anyone who has ever messed with the poet's soul. And a better, more enlightened self will emerge. And then you will shake your head from the gorgeous dream you've experienced and give this book to someone you love very much -- or loathe." -- Ed Bok Lee, author of Whorled About the Author Franny Choi is the author of the collection Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014) and the chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). She has received awards and fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Kundiman, and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, the Poetry Review, The New England Review, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She is an MFA candidate at the University of Michigan, a Project VOICE teaching artist, and a member of the Dark Noise Collective.
