The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi’s poetry collection focuses on the historical reality of survival through repeated disaster, specifically within marginalized and Asian American lineages. The poems map how apocalypses are not singular future events but ongoing cycles of state violence, environmental collapse, and the Korean War’s lasting scars. Choi integrates speculative imagery with digital technology and ancestral memory, examining how language shifts under the pressure of annihilation. Pieces investigate how families preserve themselves despite colonial displacement and how collective resistance persists when the structures of the world have already fallen.

This book serves readers interested in the intersections of social justice, speculative fiction, and historical trauma. It attracts those seeking a lens on modern crises that avoids nihilism while acknowledging systemic harm. Instead of offering false comfort, the text provides intellectual tools for navigating grief and finding fragments of joy in the ruins. Readers walk away with a redefined understanding of resilience as a continuous, communal act rather than a final destination, learning to recognize the persistence of life inside sustained catastrophe.