Monica Youn, Author . Graywolf $14 (64p) ISBN 978-1-55597-381-0
"Technically edible/ like the nasturtiums," Youn's poems are a decadent decade's blowback, "[s]omething authoritative,/ asymmetrical, perhaps/ a bit outré." A Houston-raised former Stegner fellow, Youn is a lawyer in New
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Monica Youn, Author . Four Way $15.95 (69p) ISBN 978-1-935536-01-7
George Herriman drew the comic strip Krazy Kat, which was published across America, between 1913 and 1944. It followed the antics of the titular cat, who is madly in love with Ignatz Mouse, who would rather attack Krazy with a brick than return the...
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Monica Youn. Graywolf, $16 trade paper (88p) ISBN 978-1-55597-750-4
This third collection from Youn (Ignatz) finds her tightly yet playfully interrogating inheritance and legacy, real and fictional landscapes, and the particular bodily experience of a woman hoping to conceive. The title refers to a legal term...
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Monica Youn. Graywolf, $17 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-64445-221-9
Youn deconstructs in her piercing fourth collection (after Blackacre) Asian American identity to examine its many fragments. “Revealing a racial marker in a poem is like revealing a gun in a story or like/ revealing a nipple in a dance,” Youn writes
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