{"title":"Kyo Lee","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKyo Lee\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts evocative explorations of identity and belonging, delving into the complex interplay between personal and national narratives. Readers can expect deeply reflective works that challenge perceptions through poetic and unflinching prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, these books offer a powerful lens on cultural memory and displacement, blending memoir and political insight to resonate with those drawn to thoughtful storytelling and contemporary issues.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"i-cut-my-tongue-on-a-broken-country-by-kyo-lee-9781551529776","title":"i cut my tongue on a broken country","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA debut poetry collection about reconciling with oneself and learning to love, through a youthful, queer diasporic Korean lens.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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\n\n\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. \u003cem\u003ei cut my tongue on a broken country\u003c\/em\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\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ei cut my tongue on a broken country\u003c\/em\u003e documents 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\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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 \u003cem\u003eExculpatory Lilies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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 \u003cem\u003eOlder Sister. Not Necessarily Related.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47558934855916,"sku":"9781551529776","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781551529776-i-cut-my-tongue-on-a-broken-country.jpg?v=1776923019"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/kyo-lee.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}