Category: Adults, Poetry
Language: EnglishKeywords: Affection
Written by Emily Jungmin Yoon
Read by Emily Jungmin Yoon
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
From one of the sharpest up-and-coming voices in contemporary poetry, a stunning collection that explores our most fundamental instincts, capacity for affection, and the ways in which we resemble the wild
Find Me as the Creature I Am is a book full of tenderness and violence, longing and love. Ranging from inherited family tales to meditations on the body to animalsâ display of love and grief alike, Emily Jungmin Yoon holds up a mirror to humanity to show that we are animal, too. In poems full of wonder and want, she showcases our tendencies to fight or fly, act with affection and cruelty, and ultimately, overflow with life itself.
âAnd when I say we are beasts, / is that a metaphor?â Yoon asks, exploring how weâlike language, like any creatureâstem from our surroundings. Braiding together reflections about the natural world, family heritage, and adoration, Yoon shows that what passes between usâbody to body, generation to generationâis what defines a life. Deeply felt and beautifully crafted, Find Me as the Creature I Am is a rapturous collection by a rising star in the poetry landscape.
Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
Release date: 10-22-24
From one of the sharpest up-and-coming voices in contemporary poetry, a stunning collection that explores our most fundamental instincts, capacity for affection, and the ways in which we resemble the wild
Find Me as the Creature I Am is a book full of tenderness and violence, longing and love. Ranging from inherited family tales to meditations on the body to animalsâ display of love and grief alike, Emily Jungmin Yoon holds up a mirror to humanity to show that we are animal, too. In poems full of wonder and want, she showcases our tendencies to fight or fly, act with affection and cruelty, and ultimately, overflow with life itself.
âAnd when I say we are beasts, / is that a metaphor?â Yoon asks, exploring how weâlike language, like any creatureâstem from our surroundings. Braiding together reflections about the natural world, family heritage, and adoration, Yoon shows that what passes between usâbody to body, generation to generationâis what defines a life. Deeply felt and beautifully crafted, Find Me as the Creature I Am is a rapturous collection by a rising star in the poetry landscape.
Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
Release date: 10-22-24