Unbearable Splendor by Sun Yung Shin

Unbearable Splendor by Sun Yung Shin

Full Book Name: Unbearable Splendor
Author Name: Sun Yung Shin
Book Genre: Adoption, Essays, Poetry, Science Fiction
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Edition Language: English
Date of Publication: October 11, 2016
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Finalist for the Believer Poetry Award

"[her] work reads like redactions, offering fragments to be explored, investigated and interrogated, making her reader equal partner in the creation of meaning."—Star Tribune

Sun Yung Shin moves ideas—of identity (Korean, American, adoptee, mother, Catholic, Buddhist) and interest (mythology, science fiction, Sophocles)— around like building blocks, forming and reforming new constructions of what it means to be at home.

What is a cyborg but a hybrid creature of excess? A thing that exceeds the sum of its parts. A thing that has extended its powers, enhanced, even superpowered.