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Master

Master

Hayes, Terrance
Shieh, Simon
Shieh, Simon

Paperback

Series: Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1956046216
ISBN13: 9781956046212
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: Sep 12 2023
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Winner of the 2022 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Terrance Hayes.

The debut collection from Simon Shieh, Master is a stark, surreal, and imagistic reckoning with a traumatic past. Master follows the speaker's struggle with masculinity from a martial arts school in upstate New York to a boxing academy in Beijing. Language emerges in this collection not as a neutral witness to a boy's subjugation, but as the very tool of hegemony, though one which also holds the key to its own undoing, and therefore to freedom. As much as Master is the story of pain, it is also a journey to healing, illuminating that while violence can be our patrimony, it does not have to be our destiny.

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