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Transgression, Transcendence, and Identity in Sun Yung Shin’s Unbearable Splendor by Jenny Drai on Medium ‘Unbearable Splendor’ Is a Literary White Dwarf Star by Timothy Moore in .  · Unbearable Splendor. Sun Yung Shin, Unbearable Splendor. Publisher: Coffee House Press. , pages, paperback, $ POETRY AS ESSAY. These three words on the back cover, along with praise from the likes of Bhanu Kapil and Jenny Boully, piqued my interest from the get-go. My expectations were high, yet quickly surpassed: Unbearable Splendor is one of the best books I’ve Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. “In Unbearable Splendor, Sun Yung Shin sticks a pin directly into the heart of who we are to reveal that a person is a mystery without beginning or end, borders or documents, complicated by robotics and astrophysics, arrivals and departures, myth and rewriting. A person is divided into multiple, complicated selves, as various and complex as the forms and approaches she employs in these poetic essays/5(17).

Unbearable Splendor. by. Sun Yung Shin (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · ratings · 34 reviews. Sun Yung Shin moves ideas—of identity (Korean, American, adoptee, mother, Catholic, Buddhist) and interest (mythology, science fiction, Sophocles)— around like building blocks, forming and reforming new constructions of what it. Sun Yung Shin moves ideas around like building blocks, forming and reforming new constructions of what it means to be guest, to be host. How to be at home. About the Author Sun Yung Shin is the author of poetry collections Rough, and Savage and Skirt Full of Black, which won an Asian American Literary Award. Biography. Sun Yung Shin 신선영 is the author of the forthcoming books in prose collection, Unbearable Splendor, from Coffee House Press and essay anthology, A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota, from Minnesota Historical Society www.doorway.ru poetry collections Rough, and Savage and Skirt Full of Black were also published by Coffee House Press.

“In Unbearable Splendor, Sun Yung Shin sticks a pin directly into the heart of who we are to reveal that a person is a mystery without beginning or end, borders or documents, complicated by robotics and astrophysics, arrivals and departures, myth and rewriting. A person is divided into multiple, complicated selves, as various and complex as the forms and approaches she employs in these poetic essays. multidimensional and multi-textured read.” —The Corresponder. “It is a blessing that Sun Yung Shin has written a great deal of sound into Unbearable Splendor, because we have not heard or seen or read anything like this before, a truly unique, essential, and original collection.” —NewPages. Transgression, Transcendence, and Identity in Sun Yung Shin’s Unbearable Splendor by Jenny Drai on Medium ‘Unbearable Splendor’ Is a Literary White Dwarf Star by Timothy Moore in Chicago Review of Books 10/13/