The wet hex / Sun Yung Shin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shin, Sun Yung, author.

Contributor:

George R. Fink Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Korean American women--Poetry.

Korean American women.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

102 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Personal and environmental violations form the backdrop against which Sun Yung Shin examines questions of grievability, violence, and responsibility in The Wet Hex. Incorporating sources such as her own archival immigration documents, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Christopher Columbus' journals, and traditional Korean burial rituals, Shin explores the ways that lives are weighed and bartered. Smashing the hierarchies of god and humanity, heaven and hell, in favor of indigenous Korean shamanism and animism, The Wet Hex layers an apocalyptic revision of nineteenth-century imagery of the sublime over the present, conjuring a reality at once beautiful and terrible"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Section 1 THERE IS / NEVER / ENOUGH

A Spade Is for Piercing the Ground and a Shovel Is for Heaving

Mines and Museums, or, the DMZ Is a Nature Preserve

Behind This Door Is a Siberian Tiger

An Orphan Receives Her Commercial DNA Test Results from Two Companies: An Abecedarian

Castaways in Paradise

History of Domestication

How an Animal Knows Where She Ends and You Begin

An Orphan Considers the Hand of God

Section 2 VIOLENCE IS NOT A METAPHOR

Botany of Death

Detonations

Bayonets and Bonfire

Specimens of Immortality

I Wandered into a Mass Extinction Event

He Said That We Should Turn Back

Section 3 THE UNDERWORLD HOLDS ALL TETHERS

Gaze_Observatory Threshold: A rfzltf]?! Baridegi Reimagining

Section 4 FATE IS A DEBT

The Wolvish Forage

Unnatural Selection

A Black Box Theory of Descent

The Binding

Wheels of Misfortune

In the House of Moths

Our Country Laundered Us

Section 5 A WHITE FORKED FLAME

Sublime: Sailing Through a Midnight Sea

Whiteness: A Spell Thrown

Fish Scales All Over This Ark

Ravishing Migrations

Transit from Lintel to Lintel

My First Voyage Out

Tiger | Fade In, Fade Out

Evolution in the Underworld

Lullaby | Goodnight.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Shin, Sun Yung.- Wet hex

ISBN:

9781566896382

156689638X

OCLC:

1276848917