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Extinction Theory: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820362731)
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Kien Lam
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xExtinction Theory is a collection of pseudoscience poems that try to provide rationales for some of life's most salient mysteries. Where is God? What does it mean to belong? Who killed the dinosaurs? Kien Lam creates new worlds with new rules to better answer these perennial questions. His poetry is that of discovery, of looking at the world as if for the first time. Lam exposes the transitory and transcendent nature of things and how we find meaning.
At the heart of this collection is also a cataloging of the smaller "extinctions" in life. Every passing moment is the death of something, and try as we might to recreate the feeling, it can never be the same. Maybe it's a relationship. Maybe it's a donut. It changes its shape as we juxtapose it against something new. Extinction Theory is as much about language as it is about the absence of language. Of English, of Vietnamese, and then of neither.Author: Kien Lam
ISBN-10: 0820362735
ISBN-13: 9780820362731
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2022
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.30d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2022 pg. 12
Library Journal 11/01/2022 pg. 112
By Kien Lam
xKIEN LAM is a Kundiman Fellow and an Indiana University MFA alumnus. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, the New Republic, the Nation, and other publications. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he writes about professional video game players.
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