LEADER 02915cam a2200421 i 4500001 99130636645706421 005 20240725052927.0 008 231020t20242024iaua 000 p eng^^ 010 2023036724 020 9781609389512 |qpaperback 020 1609389514 |qpaperback 020 |z9781609389529 |qelectronic book 035 (OCoLC)on1405943473 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCF |dOCLCO |dYDX |dBDX |dNYP |dYDX 042 pcc 050 00 PS3603.H6547 |bL46 2024 082 00 811/.6 |223/eng/20231020 100 1 Choi, Stephanie, |eauthor. 245 14 The lengest neoi / |cby Stephanie Choi. 264 1 Iowa City : |bUniversity of Iowa Press, |c[2024] 264 4 |c©2024 300 90 pages : |bilustrations ; |c23 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Iowa Poetry prize 520 "The Lengest Neoi embraces and complicates what it means to err-to wander or go astray; a deviation from a code of behavior or truth; a mistake, flaw, or defect. Beginning with the collection's title, which combines a colloquial Cantonese phrase (Leng Neoi/"Pretty Girl") and the English suffix for the superlative degree (-est), these poems wander, deviate, and flaw across bodies, geographies, and languages. From the Nantucket Whaling Museum to the War Remnants Museum in Saigon, from childhood speech and bodily correction to the history of the American Chestnut Tree and anti-Asian sentiment and policies, from voicemails to experimental translations between English and Cantonese-this book asks: to wander or go astray from where? Who and what defines error? What is a right translation? Of language, of body, of self, of history? The speaker's insatiable desire for self-definition-to transform "error" into poetic space and play-leaves her wondering if the process of creating and looking doesn't also embody a kind of projected, and potentially problematic, fantasy of self. Ultimately, the collection grapples with how one might be "still of the histories that define me," and able to locate sites of agency and self-creation. In this debut collection from Stephanie Choi, you'll find the poet's "tongue writing herself, learning to speak.""-- |cProvided by publisher. 586 Iowa Poetry prize, 2023. 655 7 poetry. |2aat |0(CStmoGRI)aatgf300055931 655 7 Poetry |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01423828 655 7 Poetry. |2lcgft 655 7 Poésie. |2rvmgf |0(CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000476 776 08 |iOnline version:Choi, Stephanie. |tLengest neoi |dIowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2024 |z9781609389529 |w(DLC) 2023036725 830 0 Iowa poetry prize 910 |cG0601mon |d3110-07 |gYBP |h59220 914 (OCoLC)on1405943473 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240717 |eprocessed |f1405943473 980 20627242 |f59220 |i22.00 |j18.04 |n40032266473 982 |cf |q32101119710463