{"product_id":"salvage-9780299351847","title":"Salvage","description":"Part 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.\" \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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHedgie Choi is the translator of \u003ci\u003ePillar of Books\u003c\/i\u003e by Moon Bo Young and the cotranslator of \u003ci\u003eHysteria \u003c\/i\u003eby Kim Yideum, which won the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize and the National Translation Award. Her poetry can be found in \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCatapult\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWest Branch\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Her fiction can be found in \u003ci\u003eNOON\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Short Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hopkins Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51199544492306,"sku":"9780299351847","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_622741be-6c2f-4fc9-8084-ba3a9f155e7c.jpg?v=1744879993","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/salvage-9780299351847","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}