Find Me as the Creature I Am: Poems by Emily Jungmin Yoon

Find Me as the Creature I Am: Poems

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Find Me as the Creature I Am: Poems by Emily Jungmin Yoon

Knopf Publishing Group

Find Me as the Creature I Am: Poems

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From one of the sharpest up-and-coming voices in contemporary poetry, a stunning collection that explores our most fundamental instincts, capacity for affection, and the ways in which we resemble the wild

Find Me as the Creature I Am is a book full of tenderness and violence, longing and love. Ranging from inherited family tales to meditations on the body to animals' display of love and grief alike, Emily Jungmin Yoon holds up a mirror to humanity to show that we are animal, too. In poems full of wonder and want, she showcases our tendencies to fight or fly, act with affection and cruelty, and ultimately, overflow with life itself.

"And when I say we are beasts, / is that a metaphor?" Yoon asks, exploring how we--like language, like any creature--stem from our surroundings. Braiding together reflections about the natural world, family heritage, and adoration, Yoon shows that what passes between us--body to body, generation to generation--is what defines a life. Deeply felt and beautifully crafted, Find Me as the Creature I Am is a rapturous collection by a rising star in the poetry landscape.
Book Details
Publisher:
Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN:
9780593801185
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
80
Authors:
Emily Jungmin Yoon
Published Date:
2024-10-22
Language:
English
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About Emily Jungmin Yoon

Born in Busan, Emily Jungmin Yoon holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. She also holds an MFA in creative writing from New York University, and an MA and PhD in East Asian languages and civilizations from the University of Chicago. She is an assistant professor of Korean literature at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her chapbook Ordinary Misfortunes won the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize in 2017; A Cruelty Special to Our Species came from Ecco in 2018 and was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Find Me as the Creature I Am followed from Knopf in 2024. She has served as poetry editor for The Margins.

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