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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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"
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