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Charlyne Yi

You Can't Kill Me Twice

A deeply personal collection of poetry and art by the award-winning actor, comedian, and composer.
With a poetic voice that is by turns lyrical and plainspoken, Charlyne Yi writes about the uncertainty of relationships, the absurdity of societal expectations, family trauma, and identity. In this intimate collection, you’ll find poems and accompanying line illustrations that are playful and profound, sometimes darkly funny, and often acutely moving.
“Direct, personal and attention holding. It’s Yi as you may not have seen or heard her before . . . In short bursts that barely fill a page, often accompanied by line illustrations to underscore them, the poetic voice in Yi’s first book of poetry can be alternately angry, playful, blunt, and lyrical.” —The MetroWest Daily News
“It’s clear that the reader is about to embark on a literary journey marked by an acceptance—and worship—of all things tender, open, sensitive, authentic, and human. It also offers ideas on kindness, race, culture . . . a testimony to being alive—it’s powerful in its quietness, its exactness. It’s soft, real, and to the point.” —Little Infinite
81 printed pages
Original publication
2019
Publication year
2019
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Quotes

  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Ten o’clock, New England.
    A local pub along a disappearing old road
    somewhere near Concord.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Two quarrelers
    meet in the middle of a dream
    and take ten paces.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    even if they come and go, even if
    you drift and grow,
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