Unbearable Splendor

By Sun Yung Shin

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566894514
• ISBN13: 9781566894517
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.9" x 7.7"