{"id":7637,"date":"2016-10-13T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=7637"},"modified":"2016-10-13T09:16:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T16:16:33","slug":"editors-corner-announcing-sun-yung-shins-unbearable-splendor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/13\/editors-corner-announcing-sun-yung-shins-unbearable-splendor\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor’s Corner: Announcing Sun Yung Shin’s UNBEARABLE SPLENDOR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s with great excitement that we announce the publication of Sun Yung Shin’s most recent poetry collection,\u00a0<\/em>Unbearable Splendor<\/a>\u00a0(Coffee House Press, 2016). Among other books, Shin is the author of\u00a0<\/em>Rough, and Savage<\/a> (Coffee House Press, 2012) and\u00a0winner of the 2008 Asian American Literary Award<\/em>\u00a0Skirt Full of Black<\/a> (Coffee House Press, 2007), which\u00a0Craig Santos Perez\u00a0reviewed<\/a>\u00a0in<\/em><\/em> Lantern Review’s Issue 1<\/em>.\u00a0For more on Sun Yung Shin<\/em>, check out this\u00a0post<\/a>\u00a0on her poem “Until the Twenty-Second Century,” which appeared in our 2011 Poems for Monday Mornings series.\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

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In this post, we’re pleased to feature an excerpt from the opening pages of\u00a0Unbearable Splendor,\u00a0a collection of poems, essays, and hybrid works characterized by bold, flexible experiments in form. The work draws from a wide range of historical, mythological, and literary sources, including figures like Antigone, Asterion, and Pinocchio, demonstrating a deep concern with matters of origin: the etymology of words, the logic of replication and reproduction, and the ways these processes are interrupted by both natural and uncanny means.\u00a0Shin examines technologies of artificial reproduction as well, staging them as interventions in her exploration of what it means to reproduce and to be reproduced. From this investigation of cloning, cyborgs, surrogacy, and adoption, Shin weaves a narrative of language and history that represents a striking new way of understanding identity.<\/p>\n

An excerpt from\u00a0<\/em>“Valley, Uncanny”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Don’t let the name fool you: a black h<\/em>ole is anything but empty space.
\n\u2014NASA’s website, Astrophysics page, Focus Areas, Black Holes<\/em><\/p>\n

Where’s the hole’s end?<\/em>
\n\u2014\uae40\ud61c\uc21c Kim Hyesoon, “A Hole”<\/em><\/p>\n

A valley makes a kind of hole. A hole open on two sides. Korea\u2014an island on three sides. South Korea\u2014an island: water, water, water, DMZ. North Korea\u2014water, water, DMZ, the People’s Republic of China.<\/p>\n

I was a hole and I brought it, myself, to \ubbf8\uad6d\u00a0mi guk\u00a0<\/em>“beautiful country,” America, the United States. I carried a train of holes\u2014holes of smoke, holes of sky. Holes of water, holes of rice milk. I was an uncanny guest. Two years old. A week after arrival from Korea, a brother, born in America, asked, “When is she going back?” Like the heavenly maiden with too many children to carry, to many holes to go back\u00a0t(w)here<\/em>.<\/p>\n

There is a limit to canniness, but not to\u00a0being\u00a0<\/em>uncanny\u2014it is infinite, \ubb34\ud55c,\u00a0mu han.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Excerpt from “Valley, Uncanny\u201d is reprinted by\u00a0permission\u00a0from <\/em>Unbearable Splendor\u00a0(Coffee House Press, 2016). Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Sun Yung Shin.\u00a0<\/em>To purchase a copy of\u00a0<\/em>Unbearable Splendor,\u00a0visit Coffee House Press’s online catalogue\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s with great excitement that we announce the publication of Sun Yung Shin’s most recent poetry collection,\u00a0Unbearable Splendor\u00a0(Coffee House Press, 2016). Among other books, Shin is the author of\u00a0Rough, and Savage (Coffee House Press, 2012) and\u00a0winner of the 2008 Asian American Literary Award\u00a0Skirt Full of Black (Coffee House Press, 2007), which\u00a0Craig Santos Perez\u00a0reviewed\u00a0in Lantern Review’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[902],"tags":[1134,257,1139,1138,638,639,1133],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7637"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7668,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions\/7668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}