The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
ECCO, 2022
Named a Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub, Vulture, Time.
One of: Time's "100 Must-Read Books of 2022" * NPR's 2022 "Books We Love" Vulture's "10 Best Books of 2022"
“Anyone who has lived through the daily absurdity of disaster—which is to say, all of us—can find a home here.” — Eve L. Ewing, author of 1919 and Electric Arches
“A luminous, jarring, and gorgeous gift. Grateful to have these poems as a compass in these times' — Mariame Kaba, author of the NYT bestseller We Do This Til We Free Us
“[Choi’s] poetry inspires us to continuously fight for a different world—one that would be informed by generations of loss, lessons, and collective movements… an homage to where we have been and how we must continue.” — Connie Wun, PhD, co-founder of AAPI Women Lead
“Grateful for this unhealing song which is, all the same, a beginning, a gathering, a calling, a wondering, a dreaming.” —Ross Gay, author of The Book of Delights and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
“Somehow this poet still believes in us: that we might read this work and, made bold with desire, love the world so deeply it has to love us back.” — Brenda Shaughnessy, author of The Octopus Museum and Tanya
Soft Science
ALICE JAMES BOOKS, 2019
A Paris Review Staff Pick, Book Riot Must-Read Poetry Collection, and Rumpus Book Club Pick. One of Nylon’s Best Books to Read in 2019 and Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2019
“An exhilarating matrix of poetry, science, and technology.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Profoundly intelligent work which makes you feel.” — Lit Hub
“At once raw and radiant, these brilliant poems are at their most human when they assert their alienness, at their most ferocious when they dare to be vulnerable.”—Monica Youn
“In its conceptual heft, formal virtuosity, queer imagination, multi-dexterous approach to language, and tonal intricacy, Soft Science is a crucial book for our time—perhaps the book for our time.” — Diane Seuss
Floating, Brilliant, Gone
WRITE BLOODY PUBLISHING, 2014
“A thin, muscular book that crackles with energy.” — The Providence Phoenix
“Funny, heartbreaking, and unpretentiously intelligent.” — Ploughshares
“A haunted house with windows opening onto surprising moments of beauty and joy.” — Muzzle Magazine
Death by Sex Machine
(CHAPBOOK)
SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS, 2017
“Franny Choi’s poetry has the extraordinary ability to solder with tender focus one moment, then rage like electrical fire in the next.” — francine j. harris
“In her invention of form, engagement with theory and genre, and truly empathetic approach to identity, Choi offers the reader a poetry of imagination; writing which builds new possibilities for itself, even as it remains relevant to contemporary conversations around poetry and body. It’s a brilliant read.” — Up the Staircase Quarterly