Unbearable Splendor by Sun Yung Shin (English) Paperback Book

Description: Unbearable Splendor by Sun Yung Shin Who is guest, and who is host? Adoption, Antigone, zombies, clones, and minotaurs-all building blocks, forming and reforming our ideas. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 TribuneSun 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. Author Biography 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 co-edited the anthology Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption, and is the author of Coopers Lesson, a bilingual Korean/English illustrated book for children. Shes received grants and fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Bush Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and elsewhere. She lives in Minneapolis. Review "The splendor on display in Shins book consists of an incredibly compact use of commanding and vibrant language which coheres into work that feels restless and deft, as cerebral as it is emotional."--Los Angeles Review of Books "Like a lean, mean, efficient literary machine, Sun Yung Shins Unbearable Splendor uses its hybrid nature to arrive on bookshelves as something very true, heartbreaking, and, ultimately, unbearably human."--Chicago Review of Books "These constant reminders of surreal wonderment do their work like little ice picks, chipping away at the grand event of colonized hurt. The results are small, perceptible feelings you could almost hold in your hand."--Waxwing "As a book, Unbearable Splendor works on multiple levels. On perhaps its most obvious, superficial level, its a text full of beautiful, haunting, lyrical language and interconnected themes that wind in and out of each other to weave a coherent fabric of many strands. Under that surface, though, lives a veritable dissertation (with plenty of angles that the reader can research) on otherness and transgression, and in turn, on how what or who that is other, or what or who that transgresses, problematizes the existence of the one who observes." --Drunken Boat "In poems traversing that canny valley between verse and prose, Shin draws on cinema, technology, mythology, sci fi, autobiography and folklore to unlock the titular emotion: the unbearableness of the labyrinth, the splendor of being a machine--a hybrid, a replicant, an orphan." --The Rumpus "From this investigation of cloning, cyborgs, surrogacy, and adoption, Shin weaves a narrative of language and history that represents a striking new way of understanding identity."--Lantern Review "In a striking interweaving of poetry and essay, etymologies brush up against adoption certificates, and quotations jostle with myths... Shins resistance to offering a definitive answer allows her to make connections that are sometimes dizzying, often lyrical, and always thought provoking."--The Missing Slate "While unabashedly scholarly, Unbearable Splendor is heartbreaking."--Star Tribune "Shins poetry is as cerebral as it is beautiful, exploring the personal experiences of race, immigration, and gender alongside academic investigations of religion and science, philosophy and art." --Bustle "Unlike your more vanilla essay collections, this work uses poetic building blocks to slowly reveal the existentialist heart, a very impressive result as the personal connection is palpable."--Messengers Booker "Ive long thought that Sun Yung Shin is writing some of the most powerful poetry around." --Eileen Verbs Books "To graph the immigrant, the exile and pseudo-exile, as a kind of star. To perform childhood. Descent upon descent. To write on [p]aper soaked in milk. Unbearable Splendor is a book like this, that is this: the opposite or near-far of home. What is the difference between a guest and a ghost? What will you feed them in turn? I was profoundly moved by the questions and deep bits of feeling in this gorgeous, sensing work, and am honored to write in support of its extraordinary and brilliant writer, Sun Yung Shin." --Bhanu Kapil "In Unbearable Splendor, Sun Yung Shin sticks a pin directly into the heart of who we are to reveal that a person is a mystery without beginning or end, borders or documents, complicated by robotics and astrophysics, arrivals and departures, myth and rewriting. A person is divided into multiple, complicated selves, as various and complex as the forms and approaches she employs in these poetic essays. To read Shins work is to marvel at a rosebuds concealed and silent core and to slowly witness its elegant blooming. It is a delicate and majestic show." --Jenny Boully "Unbearable Splendor is a dazzling collage of biophysical metamorphoses, wherein the I atomizes into multiple and self-replicating new mythologies of what constitutes an authentic being. I didnt know I wasnt human. My past was invented, implanted, and accepted. Im more real than you are because I know Im not real. In our vast expanse, where every species is transitional, Shins lyricism, erudition, and tonal command of loss and indignation harmonize into a singular nucleus that hums and pulsates through each of these wondrous poetic meditations." --Ed Bok Lee "Into the fertile and ever-growing landscape of essay-poem hybrids comes Sun Yung Shins striking exploration of identity, imitation, and home. From the uncanny valley to the minotaurs labyrinth, Shin brings an unflagging intelligence and tremendous formal dexterity to bear on what makes us human and what makes us monstrous--we so often fall somewhere in between."--Mairead Small Staid, Literati Bookstore "In examining her own search of identity, Shin masterfully uses the likes of Antigone, Korean history, cyborgs, black holes, clones to bridge this "Uncanny Valley." This is brilliantly done and is often as mind-bending as it is heart-wrenching."--Unabridged Bookstore Promotional Endorsements (potential): Claudia Rankine, Harryette Mullen, Bhanu Kapil, Craig Santos Perez, Lisa RobertsonEarly access copiesNational print, radio, and online campaignTargeted bookseller mailingExcerpts under consideration at the New Yorker, Paris ReviewAdvertising: BookforumPromotion at: BookExpo America, AAAS, Winter Institute, ALA, Heartland Fall ForumPromotion on Coffee House Press e-newsletter, website, and social media channelsGiveaways on Instagram, Twitter & GoodreadsSimultaneous print and e-book release, with e-book ISBN to be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listedTargeted publicity to promote authors speaking engagementsPromotion via the authors Twitter account, @sunyungshin Long Description 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. Review Quote "To graph the immigrant, the exile and pseudo-exile, as a kind of star. To perform childhood. Descent upon descent. To write on [p]aper soaked in milk. Unbearable Splendor is a book like this, that is this: the opposite or near-far of home. What is the difference between a guest and a ghost? What will you feed them in turn? I was profoundly moved by the questions and deep bits of feeling in this gorgeous, sensing work, and am honored to write in support of its extraordinary and brilliant writer, Sun Yung Shin."-- Bhanu Kapil "In Unbearable Splendor, Sun Yung Shin sticks a pin directly into the heart of who we are to reveal that a person is a mystery without beginning or end, borders or documents, complicated by robotics and astrophysics, arrivals and departures, myth and rewriting. A person is divided into multiple, complicated selves, as various and complex as the forms and approaches she employs in these poetic essays. To read Shins work is to marvel at a rosebuds concealed and silent core and to slowly witness its elegant blooming. It is a delicate and majestic show." --Jenny Boully " Unbearable Splendor is a dazzling collage of biophysical metamorphoses, wherein the I atomizes into multiple and self-replicating new mythologies of what constitutes an authentic being. I didnt know I wasnt human. My past was invented, implanted, and accepted. Im more real than you are because I know Im not real. In our vast expanse, where every species is transitional, Shins lyricism, erudition, and tonal command of loss and indignation harmonize into a singular nucleus that hums and pulsates through each of these wondrous poetic meditations." --Ed Bok Lee Competing Titles Voyage of the Sable Venus Robin Coste Lewis 9781101875438 26.00 Knopf 9/2015 Citizen Claudia Rankine 9781555976903 20.00 Graywolf 10/2014 The Argonauts Maggie Nelson 9781555977078 23.00 Graywolf 5/2015 The Folded Clock Heidi Julavits 9780385538985 26.95 Doubleday 4/2015 That Winter the Wolf Came Juliana Spahr 9781934639177 16.00 Commune Editions 8/2015 Description for Sales People Sun Yung Shin has a writerly practice that centers on using intellectual and formal tools to consider fundamental ideas--personal history within the political economy, parentage and parenthood, identity, binaries, what it means to be an outsider and what it means to be at home 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 Yungs preoccupations, without ever presuming to answers The poem/essay is a form thats seeing greater and greater acclaim and visibility--see Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr Sun Yungs interest in mythology and the classics is met with an interest in zombies and clones--she 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 identity--its hybrid qualities embrace a broader audience than most poetry Details ISBN1566894514 Author Sun Yung Shin Short Title UNBEARABLE SPLENDOR Pages 112 Publisher Coffee House Press Language English ISBN-10 1566894514 ISBN-13 9781566894517 Media Book Format Paperback Residence Minneapolis, MN, US Birth 1974 DEWEY 811.6 Year 2016 Imprint Coffee House Press Place of Publication MN Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2016-10-27 NZ Release Date 2016-10-27 US Release Date 2016-10-27 UK Release Date 2016-10-27 Audience General AU Release Date 2016-10-10 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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