A review by hyebitshines
Unbearable Splendor by Sun Yung Shin

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.