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From from: Poems

From from: Poems

Youn, Monica

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 1644452219
ISBN13: 9781644452219
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: Mar 7 2023
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.50 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Awards: National Book Awards, National Book Awards

* WINNER OF THE 2024 ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD *
* FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD *
* NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, NPR, TIME, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, BOMB, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, AND LIBRARY JOURNAL *

A major achievement by Monica Youn, one of the most consistently innovative poets working today (NPR).

Where are you from . . . ? No--where are you from from? It's a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying you'll never belong here, you're a perpetual foreigner, you'll always be seen as an alien, an object, or a threat.

Monica Youn's From From brilliantly evokes the conflicted consciousness of deracination. If you have no core of authenticity, no experience of your so-called homeland, how do you piece together an Asian American identity out of Westerners' ideas about Asians? Your sense of yourself is part stereotype, part aspiration, part guilt. In this dazzling collection, one sequence deconstructs the sounds and letters of the word deracinations to create a sonic landscape of micro- and macroaggressions, assimilation, and self-doubt. A kaleidoscopic personal essay explores the racial positioning of Asian Americans and the epidemic of anti-Asian hate. Several poems titled Study of Two Figures anatomize and dissect the Asian other: Midas the striving, nouveau-riche father; Dr. Seuss and the imaginary daughter Chrysanthemum-Pearl he invented while authoring his anti-Japanese propaganda campaign; Pasiphaë, mother of the minotaur, and Sado, the eighteenth-century Korean prince, both condemned to containers allegorical and actual.

From From is an extraordinary collection by a poet whose daring and inventive works are among the most vital in contemporary literature.

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