| Unbearable Splendor Contributor(s): Shin, Sun Yung (Author) |
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ISBN: 1566894514 ISBN-13: 9781566894517 Publisher: Coffee House Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Poetry | Ancient & Classical - Poetry | Asian - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2016010964 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 4.9" W x 7.7" (0.30 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Topical - Adoption - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Praise for Sun Yung Shin: Finalist for the Believer Poetry Award her] work reads like redactions, offering fragments to be explored, investigated and interrogated, making her reader equal partner in the creation of meaning.--Star Tribune Sun Yung Shin moves ideas--of identity (Korean, American, adoptee, mother, Catholic, Buddhist) and interest (mythology, science fiction, Sophocles)-- around like building blocks, forming and reforming new constructions of what it means to be at home. What is a cyborg but a hybrid creature of excess? A thing that exceeds the sum of its parts. A thing that has extended its powers, enhanced, even superpowered. |