Unbearable Splendor
Published on 19. September 2016
112 pages
978-1-56689-452-4 (ISBN)
Description
Who is guest, and who is host? Adoption, Antigone, zombies, clones, and minotaurs?all building blocks, forming and reforming our ideas.
Poetry as essay, as a way of hovering over the uncanny, sci-fi orientalism, Antigone, cyborgs, Borges, disobedience.
Sun Yung Shin moves ideas around like building blocks, forming and reforming new constructions of what it means to be guest, to be host. How to be at home.
Poetry as essay, as a way of hovering over the uncanny, sci-fi orientalism, Antigone, cyborgs, Borges, disobedience.
Sun Yung Shin moves ideas around like building blocks, forming and reforming new constructions of what it means to be guest, to be host. How to be at home.
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Sun Yung Shin is the author of poetry collections Rough, and Savage and Skirt Full of Black, which won an Asian American Literary Award. She coedited the anthology Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption, and is the author of Cooper's Lesson, a bilingual Korean/English illustrated book for children. She's received grants and fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Bush Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and elsewhere. She lives in Minneapolis.
Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Valley, Uncanny
- The Hospitality of Strangers
- One Hundred Days in the Cave
- The Other Asterion, or, The Minotaur's Sacrifice (A Story)
- Exactly Like You
- Harness
- Orphan: The Plural Form
- The Error of Blood Relation
- I Will Make an Example
- The Limit Case
- In the Other Future
- Like a Second Person inside Us
- Autoclonography
- Unalloyed
- Paradise
- Replication
- My Singularity
- Note
- References
- Illustration Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Coffee House Press
- Funder Acknowledgments
- The Publisher's Circle of Coffee House Press
- Sun Yung Shin Recommends
- Sun Yung Shin
