Unbearable Splendor

Sun Yung Shin

• 27 oktober 2016
• 9781566894517

Samenvatting:

Who is guest, and who is host? Adoption, Antigone, zombies, clones, and minotaurs--all building blocks, forming and reforming our ideas.



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.