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From from: Poems Youn Monica A major achievement by Monica Youn, "one of the most consistently innovative poets working today" (NPR). No--where are you from from?" It's a question every Asian…
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From from: Poems Youn Monica
A major achievement by Monica Youn, "one of the most consistently innovative poets working today" (NPR). No--where are you from from?" It's a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying you'll never belong here, you're a perpetual foreigner, you'll always be seen as an alien, an object, or a threat.Monica Youn's From From brilliantly evokes the conflicted consciousness of deracination. "Where are you from . . . ?
Your sense of yourself is part stereotype, part aspiration, part guilt. If you have no core of "authenticity," no experience of your so-called homeland, how do you piece together an Asian American identity out of Westerners' ideas about Asians? In this dazzling collection, one sequence deconstructs the sounds and letters of the word "deracinations" to create a sonic landscape of micro- and macroaggressions,
From from: Poems Youn Monica
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