Jae Yeun Choi Bookshirt

“in the middle of things” by Jae Yeun Choi is a poem splitting its one hair on perceptual constancy. The moving dot or figure at rest we fix on in the middle distance—resulting in cow, woodpile, engine, mirrored high-rise, when we meet our vision where it stands, beside its oblique shadow.

Colophon printed on back. Each side printed in white on blue natural cotton long-sleeved shirts. Edition of 50.

jae yeun choi is a poet based in los angeles, ca.

What is a bookshirt? A book that’s a shirt. Much like a fish growing legs and walking on land, so too the page must grow legs and learn to walk around. The bookshirt is an experiment in imagining a book as a shirt. How does a poem change when it follows you through your day, when you read it waking up, backwards through a mirror?