SKIRT FULL OF BLACK
A remarkable debut exploring the Korean adoptee experience and expanding linguistic boundaries through lyric collage.
In her debut collection, Sun Yung Shin employs the techniques of investigative poetry and collage to craft a nuanced, unique language for navigating the politics of gender, ethnicity, and identity. As she spins new myths from Christian and Buddhist traditions and bestows new connotations upon the characters of the Korean alphabet, she gives voice to the spiritual and cultural hunger of those caught between two worlds.
April 2007
Coffee House Press
110 pages, ISBN: 978-1-56689-199-8
SKIRT FULL OF BLACK
A remarkable debut exploring the Korean adoptee experience and expanding linguistic boundaries through lyric collage.
In her debut collection, Sun Yung Shin employs the techniques of investigative poetry and collage to craft a nuanced, unique language for navigating the politics of gender, ethnicity, and identity. As she spins new myths from Christian and Buddhist traditions and bestows new connotations upon the characters of the Korean alphabet, she gives voice to the spiritual and cultural hunger of those caught between two worlds.
April 2007
Coffee House Press
PRESS + MEDIA
“Shin’s poetry is a grand orchestration of the cacophonic events and voices in an immigrant woman’s life. Marked by a keen political consciousness, an imagination as wicked as it is generous, and an erotic, physical sense of language both remembered and forgotten, these poems are at once social critique and personal intimation, worth revisiting again and again.” —Jane Jeong Trenka
“Shin’s poetry collection is a revolving door of perspective. Like a skilled juggler, Shin flips the coins again and again to peer in on the reflections, the differences and the similarities.“ —The Great American Pinup blog