You Can't Kill Me Twice: (So Please Treat Me Right)

By Charlyne Yi

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

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Nov 19, 2019
• ISBN: 9781524858551

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Dedicated to the city of Flint

You Can’t Kill Me Twice copyright © 2019 by Charlyne Yi. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of reprints in the context of reviews.

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I don’t judge a book by its cover;

I judge it by its spine.

book spine

I am undressing you in my mind,

to dress you up right:

in thermals, a coat, scarf, toque,

wool socks, and boots.

It’s cold out and I care about you.

Sometimes, tenderness is sexy.

I am a witch,

a vulnerable, vulgar woman,

made