The Wet Hex

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By Sun Yung Shin

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Sun Yung Shin invites readers into a visionary exploration of human existence through The Wet Hex, a profound collection of poetry intertwining personal history, environmental crises, and cultural heritage. Drawing on archival immigration documents, Metamorphoses by Ovid, Columbus's journals, and Korean shamanistic traditions, Shin challenges conventional hierarchies between gods and humans, life and death, casting a spell of apocalyptic beauty and reflection over contemporary realities.
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This evocative and complex poetry collection will resonate with readers interested in contemporary poetry, cultural hybridity, environmental themes, and spiritual mythologies. It suits those drawn to inventive, lyrical explorations of identity, history, and the natural world.

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Sun Yung Shin calls her readers into the unknown now-future of the human species, an underworld museum of births, deaths, evolutions, and extinctions.

Personal and environmental violations form the backdrop against which Sun Yung Shin examines questions of grievability, violence, and responsibility in The Wet Hex. Incorporating sources such as her own archival immigration documents, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Christopher Columbus's journals, and traditional Korean burial rituals, Shin explores the ways that lives are weighed and bartered.

Smashing the hierarchies of god and humanity, heaven and hell, in favour of indigenous Korean shamanism and animism, The Wet Hex layers an apocalyptic revision of nineteenth-century imagery of the sublime over the present, conjuring a reality at once beautiful and terrible.

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Winner of the 2023 Midland Authors Award for Poetry and finalist for the 2023 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry, The Wet Hex has been praised for its formal inventiveness and visionary scope. Elizabeth Hoover in the Star Tribune calls it 'revelatory' and 'a resource to create materials for survival.' Katya Buresh in BOMB Magazine describes it as 'enthralling and fantastical,' engaging spiritual and mythical worlds seamlessly. Diego Báez from the Poetry Foundation highlights its dazzling scrutiny of time and legacy, marking it as a powerful poetic achievement.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781566896382

Publisher: Coffee House Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 July 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Coffee House Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 128

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry Sun Yung Shin

About the Author

Sun Yung Shin is a Korean-born poet, writer, collaborative artist, and bodyworker. She/they lives in Minneapolis.

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