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Spirited and restlessly imaginative, Shin's poems weave a lyrical collage of ancient fragments, fairytale, and both Korean and American history.
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Changeling
Which Way | Gichicheon | Yankeetown
The Donor Sibling Registry
Kingdom of the Light, Kingdom of the Dark
In the End
Suffrage
Assassin
Are You Here
In the News Again, the Language Cycle
In the End
Uri Nara
(Riot Police)
(Pyongtaek, U.S. Military Base Expansion)
(Naju, Weeding at the Base of the Pear Tree)
(Demilitarized Zone)
(Mountain, Jirisan National Park)
(The North Korean Observatory)
(Outside the Gate at Camp Humphreys, U.S. Military Base)
(Budae Chigae Near the Gi Ji Cheon / ¿Garbage¿ Stew near the Prostitution Camptown)
Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU): Headquarters, Seoul, August 2007
Itinerary
Ode to the Frog Bridegroom
The Brother
Ask Us to Pray
Isolette
Political Prisoner
Marching
Upon Seeing Former ¿Comfort Women¿ Not (Allowed by the Korean Police) in Front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul
Waking
The Daughter¿s Semi-Daily Violin Practice
Available
Easy
American Missionary
Seoul, December 1883
August 1910
The 1816 Voyages of the Alceste and Lyra
Superstition
1895, the King of Korea is a Vassal of China
Coal and Iron and Gold
Here Not Then
Ordinary Geography
Territorial Dispute
August 1950, 8,000 Korean Replacements
Clay & Fire
Bongeun-Sa Temple, Samseong-Dong of a Gangnam-Gu District
Memories of a Murder, 2003, Directed by Boon Jong-Ho
The Tourist¿s Prayer Bead Bracelet
A Thanksgiving Series
Revere Your Enemies
The World in Surrender
Dowry, Rights and Obligations
A Curious Genealogy
About the author
Sun Yung Shin is the author of Skirt Full of Black, winner of the Asian American Literary Award for Poetry in 2008. She is the co-editor of Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption and the author of bilingual Korean/English illustrated book for children Cooper's Lesson. Sun Yung has received artist grants and fellowships from the Archibald Bush Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, the Jerome Foundation, Bladdock Nature Sanctuary, and the Loft Literary Center. She has taught writing at the University of Minnesota, the College of St. Catherine, the Loft Literary Center, Intermedia Arts, and elsewhere in the community. Her website can be found at www.sunyungshin.com.
Summary
Spirited and restlessly imaginative, Shin's poems weave a lyrical collage of ancient fragments, fairytale, and both Korean and American history.
