People Person (eBook)

Joanna Cho (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
Victoria University Press (Verlag)
978-1-77692-092-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Shortlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry in the 2023 Ockham NZ Book AwardsPeople Person is a debut collection by Joanna Cho. These adventurous, funny and dissonant poems are about the endless work of fitting in when the goalposts are constantly changing. They ask: how can we nail the perfect routine? How can we be a people person in the world? What parts of ourselves must we leave behind?Moving between South Korea and New Zealand, Joanna Cho' s poems range excitingly in form, drawing upon and cleverly subverting the folktale, the phone conversation and the basketball game. At the heart of this book is a mother – a generous, artistic woman who has limited choices in life, in comparison with our narrator, who is almost paralysed by choice – and the deep, almost haunting comfort she brings.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.6.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• ISBN-10: 1-77692-092-9 / 1776920929
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77692-092-1 / 9781776920921