| Skirt Full of Black Contributor(s): Shin, Sun Yung (Author) |
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ISBN: 156689199X ISBN-13: 9781566891998 Publisher: Coffee House Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2007 Annotation: "Shin's poetry is a grand orchestration of the cacophonic events and voices in an immigrant woman's life. Marked by a keen political consciousness, an imagination as wicked as it is generous, and an erotic, physical sense of language both remembered and forgotten, these poems are at once social critique and personal intimation, worth revisiting again and again."-Jane Jeong Trenka As Sun Yung Shin spins new myths from Catholic and Buddhist traditions and bestows new connotations upon the characters of the Korean alphabet, she gives voice to the spiritual and cultural hunger of transnational adoptees, crafting a nuanced, unique language for navigating the politics of gender, ethnicity, and identity. Visit her website at www.sunyungshin.com. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Asian American - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2006038521 |
| Physical Information: 0.27" H x 6.04" W x 9" (0.40 lbs) 110 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Shin's poetry is a grand orchestration of the cacophonic events and voices in an immigrant woman's life. Marked by a keen political consciousness, an imagination as wicked as it is generous, and an erotic, physical sense of language both remembered and forgotten, these poems are at once social critique and personal intimation, worth revisiting again and again."--Jane Jeong Trenka As Sun Yung Shin spins new myths from Catholic and Buddhist traditions and bestows new connotations upon the characters of the Korean alphabet, she gives voice to the spiritual and cultural hunger of transnational adoptees, crafting a nuanced, unique language for navigating the politics of gender, ethnicity, and identity. Visit her website at www.sunyungshin.com. |