Abductions and The Flood:
Poetry by Chiwan Choi
by
Chiwan Choi
[March
9, 2012]
6PM to 8PM
25 West 43rd Street, Room
1000
between 5th & 6th Avenues,
Manhattan
Call or E-mail to RSVP
LA-based poet
Chiwan Choi will
read from and
discuss his new
poetry
collection,
Abductions, and
also from his
debut
collection, The
Flood.
In Abductions,
Choi sets out to
write poems
about aliens.
According to
Choi, it seemed
like the hot
thing to do,
with zombie
poems and such
being
published. What
he ends up with
is a mythology
about alien
abduction that
helps tells the
story of his
family,
including
parents who
escaped North
Korea when they
were young, and
the miscarriage
that he and wife
went through.
Choi will
discuss the
creative process
between the two
very different
poetry
collections, and
the battles he
went through in
trying to define
the
personal/political
(The Flood) and
myth/fact
(Abductions), as
well as the
opinions he has
faced being a
fringe member of
the literary
world, not fully
embraced by the
mainstream, and
yet also not
being
Korean/Asian
enough for the
Korean-American/Asian-American
community.
