The Curious Thing

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Poems

By Sandra Lim

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The Curious Thing offers a truthful, sensuous, and intellectually rigorous exploration through poetry. Sandra Lim meditates on themes of love, artistic creation, solitude, and female experience with wit and emotional depth. Her poems dialogue with voices like Jean Rhys, uncovering loneliness and anger, and thoughtfully navigating self-discovery in midlife through an extended sequence. The collection balances lucidity, tenderness, and striking metaphors, celebrating a passionate, empathetic inner life.
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This collection is ideal for readers interested in contemporary poetry that deeply interrogates themes of identity, female experience, and artistic introspection. Fans of emotionally nuanced and intellectually challenging verse, as well as admirers of authors like Ocean Vuong and Louise Glück, will appreciate this work.

In this gorgeous third collection, Sandra Lim investigates desire, sexuality and dream with sinewy intelligence and a startling freshness

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Truthful, sensuous, and intellectually relentless, the poems in The Curious Thing are compelling meditations on love, art making, solitude, female fate, and both the mundane and serious principles of life. Sandra Lim's poetry displays stinging wit and a tough-minded approach to her own experiences: She speaks with Jean Rhys about beauty, encounters the dark loneliness that can exist inside a relationship, and discovers a coiled anger on a hot summer day.

An extended poem sequence slyly revolves the meanings of finding oneself astray in midlife. A steely strength courses through the volume's myriad discoveries—Lim's lucidity and tenderness form a striking complement to her remarkable metaphors and the emotional clamor of her material.

Animated by a sense of reckoning and a piercing inwardness, these anti-sentimental poems nevertheless celebrate the passionate and empathetic subjective life.

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Ocean Vuong praises the collection as a force with 'its own gravity' that combines precision and audacity. Louise Glück highlights the poems' elegant, cool, and ruminative quality, admiring Lim's self-scrutiny and emotional control. Monica Youn describes the poems as 'quiet miracles' that offer exhilarating acts of naming and perception. The collection is noted for its stark, steely beauty and intellectual depth.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781324066187

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 October 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 211.0mm

Weight: 120g

Pages: 80

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry Sandra Lim

About the Author

Sandra Lim was born in Seoul, South Korea. She is the author of three poetry collections, The Curious Thing, Loveliest Grotesque and The Wilderness, chosen by Louise Glück for the Barnard Women Poets Prize. She has received many honors for her work, including the Levis Reading Prize, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from MacDowell and the Getty Foundation. She is a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.