Skirt Full of Black : Poems

by Shin, Sun Yung

• ISBN13: 9781566891998
• ISBN10: 156689199X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-01
• Publisher: Coffee House Pr

Summary

"Shin's poetry is a grand orchestration of the cacophonic events and voices in an immigrant woman's life. Marked by a keen political consciousness, an imagination as wicked as it is generous, and an erotic, physical sense of language both remembered and forgotten, these poems are at once social critique and personal intimation, worth revisiting again and again."-Jane Jeong Trenka As Sun Yung Shin spins new myths from Catholic and Buddhist traditions and bestows new connotations upon the characters of the Korean alphabet, she gives voice to the spiritual and cultural hunger of transnational adoptees, crafting a nuanced, unique language for navigating the politics of gender, ethnicity, and identity. Visit her website at www.sunyungshin.com.

Table of Contents

Macro-Altaic	p. 11
Kuai-Zi	p. 13
Obviously, these were home rather than office machines ...	p. 15
Fruit of arrival	p. 17
Immigrant song	p. 19
Economic miracles	p. 23
Flower I, Stamen and Pollen	p. 28
That came to be split into a plurality	p. 39
The house	p. 40
Myopia	p. 41
One radio	p. 42
A Korean subtraction	p. 43
The true story of refrigerator and medicine cabinet	p. 44
Missing masks : names	p. 45
Kyop'o (overseas Korean) on location	p. 46
Half the business	p. 47
Flower II, calyx	p. 51
The state will be served even by my hand on these letters	p. 55
Over the course of several decades following the Korean War ...	p. 56
Tin bullets : tiny bulls : bulletins	p. 57
Speed	p. 59
God's grammar test	p. 62
Vestibulary	p. 65
Leftovers	p. 93
The vanishing twin	p. 94
Natural variation	p. 96
Worship	p. 97
Until the twenty-second century	p. 99
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