Title:
Bodega : poems / Su Hwang.
ISBN:
9781571315243
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2019.
©2019
Physical Description:
94 pages ; 22 cm
General Note:
Includes a poem translated into Korean by poet Emily Jungmin Yoon.
Contents:
Something of a proverb on luck -- Instant scratch off -- Graveyard shift -- An immigrant's elegy -- Fresh off the boat : an iconography -- Latchkeys -- To infinity & beyond -- Accumulation -- 1.5 proof -- Eomma -- Corner store still : life -- Excavation -- Han -- Portrait of ladymothering -- American seismology -- Hopscotch -- Flushingqueens -- Conjure : daughter -- Show me where it hurts -- When streets are paved with gold -- Assimilation bouquet -- Fresh off the boat : five sonnets -- Jesus -- Migratory patterns -- Store credit -- Bodega -- Wabi-sabi -- Sestina of Koreatown burning -- Reappearing acts of disappearing completely -- Han -- Fault lines -- The price of rice -- Duende essays -- Subtraction theory -- Face : off -- Hosanna Dry Cleaners -- Cancer -- Witness marks -- Masters of re : invention -- Fatherland triptych -- Han -- Saranghaeyo -- Leisure world -- Sunchoke.
Summary:
Against the backdrop of the war on drugs and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, a Korean girl comes of age in her parents' bodega in the Queensbridge projects, offering a singular perspective on our nation of immigrants and the tensions pulsing in the margins where they live and work.
Subject Term:
OCLC Number:
on1083580854
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