{"product_id":"salvage-9780299351847","title":"Salvage","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hedgie Choi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart blasphemous prayer, part stand-up comedy, wholly unique, this breathtaking collection is by turns devastating, funny, and startling. \"Some things happened to me in my formative years that I don't want to tell you about,\" writes Hedgie Choi, \"but some things happened to you too.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Whether the site of exploration is \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e, Leonard Cohen, roadkill, or etymology, sublime bewilderment rubs shoulders with half-buried humiliations and accidental salvations. The voice in these poems tenderly and tenaciously inquires into how to survive--not how to survive violence but how to survive surviving. Choi is the rare poet who can elicit laughter, sober reflection, and wry bemusement all within the space of a few lines--or sometimes only one. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This is a collection that you can read through in a single sitting, then return to again and again. \"I'm half teenage girls \/ and half grown men,\" she writes--to which we can only wonder, aren't we all?","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45408569262231,"sku":"9780299351847","price":1207.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780299351847.webp?v=1769292154","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/salvage-9780299351847","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}