Cut to Bloom, where Noah Arhm Choi dares to explore the journey of unlearning the survival instinct of trauma. Through the complex hyphen between Asian and American identity, queerness and belonging, and survival and choice, Arhm Choi delves into the heart of what it means to redefine oneself. This book disrupts the colonialism of strict poetic form, embracing the beauty of ambiguity and challenging clear definitions. Cut to Bloom invites you on an exploration of growth, cutting away what no longer serves us to arrive at our true selves. The reader will find inspiration to redefine identity and embrace the transformative power of poetry. ,   , "Noah Arhm Choi shows us that when English falls away, what lies behind, underneath, within it are unseen languages and unseen histories—complicated, painful, and beautiful." – Patrick Rosal, author of Brooklyn Antediluvian, Boneshepherds "Cut to Bloom is neither delicate nor tidy. This immense work both elucidates and complicates ethnic, generational, and gender violence, examining women who fight for their humanity against those who seek to silence—indeed, erase—them." – Jeanann Verlee, author of Prey, Said the Manic to the Muse "With keen eye, Wild carefully unpacks personal and political histories that the world would rather bury—'a story with no mouth,' as they beautifully put it." – Phil Kaye, author of Date & Time Noah Arhm Choi is a Kundiman fellow from Ann Arbor, Michigan, who holds an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. They were a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize in 2019 and have been published in the anthology Daring to Repair by Wising Up Press and by Barrow Street, The Massachusetts Review, Split this Rock, and others. They have worked as an educator in New York City for the last six years, and have competed in poetry slams and performed across the country, including at Brave New Voices, the New York City Poetry Festival, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and the Bowery Poetry Club. ,   ,