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staplerscissors's review against another edition
4.0
yeah! solid prose poetry. strong and impactful. Korean, identity, technology, some funny parts, some boring parts.
tinythunders's review against another edition
brilliant work, even though some of it definitely went over my head. read this while waiting for sunny & renaissance to get their tattoos, in a tattoo parlor in st louis.
glisteningpandas's review against another edition
5.0
really well done loved the blend of fiction + nonfiction (minotaur, Antigone, Korean history, technological advances, immigration & adoption story, womanhood, etc.) good words nice
hyebitshines's review against another edition
5.0
picked this one up on a whim from the library’s poetry section (yes, I unconsciously search for Korean // Korean-American poets) and wow, this felt like getting pitched into some super-galactic view of time and the world, narrowing in on Korea. between disrupted lines of genealogy — exploring adoptees and incest — and folklore and a future of cyborgs and countries in the air, I think I could grasp the sense of loss — suffocation — fatalism throughout these various poems, quotes, and excerpts from literature.
600bars's review against another edition
3.0
this is a very beautiful book, but i'm not very good at reading poetry. i wish i read it 2-3 years ago when i was very obsessed with the themes in here like doubleness and cyborgs and replication and the like. my favorite part was the borges minotaur prison story. i can recognize that this is good stuff but i feel like i've read things w similar themes that i enjoyed more, which prob has more to do with me than with the book.
leeaf's review against another edition
4.0
so many rooms, grounded in others’ words . beautiful and chaotic - birth, time, multiplicative selves .