Honesty / Compley

Authors: Jae Yeun Choi / Ethan Swan

Publisher: F (2022)

Jae Yuen Choi's Honesty is a long form poem in ten parts. Slow and steady, meditative on her present and the boundaries of her selfhood. Familial, tender.

Ethan Swan's Compley is a collection of gossipy, essayistic, vignette fragments. Subjects include Swan's time working at the New Museum, playing in bands, Marylin Minter and Mary Heilmann, Jasper John's ownership of Chris Burden's nails.

Choi and Swan first met in 2000 working at a record store in Portland, OR.