{"product_id":"9781551529776","title":"I Cut My Tongue on a Broken Country","description":"Author: Kyo Lee\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781551529776\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Arsenal Pulp Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jun 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 112\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA debut poetry collection about reconciling with oneself and learning to love, through a youthful, queer diasporic Korean lens.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLotus flowers, youthful hunger, and other temporary beauties intertwine to tell this coming-of-age story, a set of pulsating poems that move toward a distant memory or a flaming future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKyo Lee's intimate debut poetry collection is simultaneously a vulnerable confession and a micro study of macro topics including lineage, family, war, and hope. \u003ci\u003ei cut my tongue on a broken country\u003c\/i\u003e explores the Asian American diaspora, queerness, girlhood, and the relationships between and within them, pushing and pulling on the boundaries of identity and language like a story trying to tell itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ei cut my tongue on a broken country \u003c\/i\u003edocuments a search for love. It's a eulogy for the things we gave up to get here. It's an ode to tenderness. It blossoms and bleeds in your hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Each poem in this compelling book is a beating heart, a prayer, an act of rebellion. There's a tender surprise in every line, every cutting image. In Kyo Lee's hands, words become anything but ordinary; her poems hit the secret bull's eye in our collective psyche.'   Susan Musgrave, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eExculpatory Lilies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Kyo Lee somehow reaches into brain and heart and mouth to pull out words her readers wish they'd had the courage to have spoken themselves. There is a poetic nimbleness but also the stone of cultural complexity that is perhaps necessary to know what it means to be a queer Korean diasporic subject.' Jenny Heijun Wills, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOlder Sister. Not Necessarily Related.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46830036484254,"sku":"ADS-9781551529776","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781551529776.jpg?v=1778558664","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781551529776","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}