The Lengest Neoi

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.＂

Stephanie Choi’s poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, PANK, Blackbird, and Electric Literature. She is currently the poet-in-residence at Sewanee: The University of the South, and lives in Sewanee, Tennessee.