The Lengest Neoi (Iowa Poetry Prize)

Name: The Lengest Neoi
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by Stephanie Choi

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The Lengest Neoi (Iowa Poetry Prize)

by Stephanie Choi

1 rating • 1 review • 1 shelved

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 flow across bodies, geographies, and languages. In this collection from Stephanie Choi, you’ll find the poet’s “tongue writing herself, learning to speak.”

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ISBN10 1609389514
ISBN13 9781609389512
Publish Date 31 May 2024
Publish Status Active
Publish Country US
Imprint University of Iowa Press

Format Paperback (US Trade)
Pages 102
Language English

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Thank you NetGalley and University Of Iowa Press for the chance to read and review this book. While there are definitely some pieces I quite liked in the book like "Lipogram" and "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once", overall, it wasn't my favourite collection. That being said, I do thing I'd be interested in exploring more by the author in the future. I wish we had also been given some explanation for the poem "X-bred"