Title: Rough, and savage : poems /
Authors: Shin, Sun Yung.
Publisher: Coffee House Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Korean Americans Poetry.; Korea History Poetry.
Abstract: Sun Yung Shin's poems animate the elements of the epic poem and Korean history across a dystopian dreamscape of fairy tale and folklore. Filled with pithy observations and striking lyrics, this collection explores alienation, moral isolation, and nationhood.
Contents: Beggar } Chooser { Beggar -- "Neither iron scissors nor wee coat turned inside out could divert me." -- Kingdom of the Light, Kingdom of the Dark: (A Monologue in Seven Parts) -- "This concavity, the blood to pool and wait" -- "Country of the sick, pilgrim and poet" -- Best Protect: Clippings -- * Uni Nara * [Our Land] -- REDACTION: United States Central Intelligence Agency/ The World Facebook/ East & Southeast Asia :: Korea, South -- REFACTION: United States Central Intelligence Agency/ The World Facebook/ East & Southeast Asia :: Korea, North -- (Riot Police) -- (Pyongtaek, U.S. Military Base Expansion) -- (Naji, Weeding at the Base of the Pear Tree) -- (Demilitarized Zone) -- (Mountain, Jirisan National Park) -- (The North Korean Observatory), a Faux-ku -- (Outside the Gate at Camp Humphreys, U.S. Military Base) -- (Budae Chigae/ "Garbage" Stew Near the Prostitution Camptown) -- "Is It as a Peanut to Time That I Enter This Dream" -- My Most Imperfect Knowledge: The 1816 Voyages of the Alceste and Lyra -- Seoul, December 1883 -- 1895, the King of Korea Is a Vassal of China -- Coal and Iron and Gold -- American Missionary -- Foresight, August 1910 -- Isolette -- Former Comfort Women Not Allowed by the Korean Police in Front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul -- August 1950, 8,000 Korean Replacements -- Available -- Daughter at the Music Stand -- Acquisition -- Return of the Native -- Earth under Glass * The Celadon Museum -- Bongeunsa Temple, Samseongdong of Gangnamgu District -- The Labor of Childhood -- Camera Obscura -- Labor of Medicine -- Famished, a Black Ladder Blood Box -- The Sibling Library -- A Curious Genealogy -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgements.