Praise for Sun Yung Shin:
Finalist for theBelieverPoetry 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.
The toggling between and counterpoint of Eastern and Western identities, cultural markers, and tropes makes for an extended essay that complicates and deepens our appreciation of Sun Yung's preoccupations, without ever presuming to answers
The poem/essay is a form that's seeing greater and greater acclaim and visibilitysee Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr
Sun Yung's interest in mythology and the classics is met with an interest in zombies and clonesshe finds something timeless in everything she writes about
This is a book that should appeal to readers of poetry, of essay, and ones who are interested in questions of the complexities of identityits hybrid qualities embrace a broader audience than most poetryEndorsements (potential): Claudia Rankine, Harryette Mullen, Bhanu Kapil, Craig Santos Perez, Lisa Robertson
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