<DIV><p>"[These] accumulated poems [are] a smoldering tragedy, a heady descent, songs from a pit where what glints may be gems or the moon off snake scales."?Douglas Kearney</p><p>Sun Yung Shin's poems animate the elements of the epic poem and Korean history across a dystopian dreamscape of fairy tale and folklore. Filled with pithy observations and striking lyrics, this collection explores alienation, moral isolation, and nationhood.</p><p><B>Sun Yung Shin</B> is the author of <I>Skirt Full of Black</I>, which won the 2008 Asian American Literary Award for poetry, and the children's book <I>Cooper's Lesson</I>, and is the co-editor of <I>Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption</I>. Raised in Chicago, Illinois, Shin currently lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota, and frequently returns to Korea.</p></DIV>