The Symmetry of Fish by Cho, Su

The Symmetry of Fish (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143137252)

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The Symmetry of Fish by Cho, Su

The Symmetry of Fish

$18.00
The Symmetry of Fish by Cho, Su

The Symmetry of Fish

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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"All hits no skips. I was incredibly moved by these poems." --Roxane Gay, via Goodreads

From National Poetry Series winner Su Cho, chosen by Paige Lewis, a debut poetry collection about immigration, memory, and a family's lexicon

Language and lore are at the core of The Symmetry of Fish, a moving debut about coming-of-age in the middle of nowhere. With striking and tender insight, it seeks to give voice to those who have been denied their stories, and examines the way phrases and narratives are passed down through immigrant families--not diluted over time, but distilled into potency over generations. In this way, a family's language is not lost but continuously remade, hitched to new associations, and capable of blooming anew, with the power to cut across space and time to unearth buried memories. The poems in The Symmetry of Fish insist that language is first and foremost a bodily act; even if our minds can't recall a word or a definition, if we trust our mouths, expression will find us--though never quite in the forms we expect.

Author: Su Cho
ISBN-10: 0143137255
ISBN-13: 9780143137252
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2022
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.09w x 0.26d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2022 pg. 12
Library Journal 11/01/2022 pg. 112
Publishers Weekly 11/28/2022
By Su Cho
By Su Cho
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Su Cho is a poet and essayist born in South Korea and raised in Indiana. She has an MFA in Poetry from Indiana University and a PhD from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has served as the editor-in-chief of Indiana Review, Cream City Review and has served as guest editor for Poetry magazine. Her work has been featured in Poetry, New England Review, Gulf Coast, and Orion; the 2021 Best American Poetry and Best New Poets anthologies; and elsewhere. A finalist for the 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Poetry Fellowship, recipient of a National Society of Arts and Letters Award, and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she is currently a visiting assistant professor at Franklin & Marshall College.

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