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.