{"product_id":"some-are-always-hungry-9781496222183","title":"Some Are Always Hungry","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, \u003ci\u003eSome Are Always Hungry\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles a family’s wartime survival, immigration, and heirloom trauma through the lens of food, or the lack thereof. Through the vehicle of recipe, butchery, and dinner table poems, the collection negotiates the myriad ways diasporic communities comfort and name themselves in other nations, as well as the ways cuisine is inextricably linked to occupation, transmission, and survival. Dwelling on the personal as much as the historical, \u003ci\u003eSome Are Always Hungry\u003c\/i\u003etraces the lineage of the speaker’s place in history and diaspora through mythmaking and cooking, which is to say, conjuring.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this excellent debut, Yun lingers over descriptions in precise and evocative language. . . . This is a lush and moving collection.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yun’s poems are unflinching in subject matter and elegant in expression. This contrast of painful moments, beautifully rendered, makes for compelling reading.\"—Sylvia Santiago, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSome Are Always Hungry \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerfully wrought book of poems. Yun’s meticulous crafting and incisive lyricism is a testament to her mastery of a poetic imagination. She ultimately conveys a singular existence that is precious and beautiful because of loved ones—those who’d rather perish than see us go hungry.\"—Stacey Park, \u003ci\u003ePortland Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the prestigious Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Korean American poet Jihyun Yun's debut offers readers a nuanced yet visceral depiction of food and satiation, one that truthfully exposes violence and greed, and another that exemplifies survival, sustenance, and mercy. Perceptive and moving, \u003ci\u003eSome Are Always Hungry\u003c\/i\u003e is an inquiry into what sustains humanity through intergenerational injustice.\"—Eugenie Julienne Mamuyac, \u003ci\u003eInternational Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Image by clear-eyed image, sound by tightly wrought sound, the poems in \u003ci\u003eSome Are Always Hungry\u003c\/i\u003e are a thundering revelation. At once a reckoning with immigration and historical trauma and rooted in the sensorial world, these poems are timeless and ongoing. Here is both the fever and the scar it leaves, the female body and the lineage of power, hunger, and desire, what cannot be forgotten and what keeps us alive despite it all; here is a poet staking her undeniable claim on the world.”—Ada Limón, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Carrying\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this visceral yet compassionate inquiry into what makes us alive, Yun shows us how hope can be fashioned out of the desire to speak on and through atrocities. This book is one of those rare collections that stuns me back to my own life, somehow renewed, somehow better, kinder, and less alone.”—Ocean Vuong, author of \u003ci\u003eNight Sky with Exit Wounds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jihyun Yun’s captivating poems hold a wise and magnetic energy at the center of each page, one rarely seen in a first book. This is a poet of grace and elemental blood-wisdom who will pull you to unexpected terrains where food is a vehicle not just to explore lineage and ancestors but to navigate the winding roads of the present and the future. . . . \u003ci\u003eSome Are Always Hungry\u003c\/i\u003e is a most magnificent and memorable debut from a deeply talented poet I’m certain we’ll be turning to again and again.”—Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of \u003ci\u003eOceanic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll Female    \u003cbr\u003e My Grandmother Thinks of Love while Steeping Tea    \u003cbr\u003e Passage, 1951    \u003cbr\u003e Bone Soup, 1951    \u003cbr\u003e For Now, Nothing Burns    \u003cbr\u003e Diptych of Girl in 1953    \u003cbr\u003e Field Notes from My Grandparents    \u003cbr\u003e Immigration    \u003cbr\u003e Homonyms    \u003cbr\u003e I Revisit Myself in 1996    \u003cbr\u003e War Soup    \u003cbr\u003e The Daughter Transmorphic    \u003cbr\u003e Yellow Fever    \u003cbr\u003e Saga of the Nymph and the Woodcutter    \u003cbr\u003e Fish Head Soup    \u003cbr\u003e Recipe: 닭도리탕    \u003cbr\u003e Diptych of Animal and Womb    \u003cbr\u003e Aubade    \u003cbr\u003e Mother Undresses    \u003cbr\u003e Blood Type    \u003cbr\u003e Lilith        \u003cbr\u003e Husband Stitch    \u003cbr\u003e The Tale of Janghwa and Hongryeon    \u003cbr\u003e Caught        \u003cbr\u003e Menstruation Triptych    \u003cbr\u003e Some Are Always Hungry    \u003cbr\u003e Immigration    \u003cbr\u003e Benediction as Disdained Cuisine    \u003cbr\u003e Praise        \u003cbr\u003e Thirst        \u003cbr\u003e Homecoming    \u003cbr\u003e Savaging    \u003cbr\u003e Revisitations    \u003cbr\u003e The Leaving Season    \u003cbr\u003e Reversal    \u003cbr\u003e Grandmother, Praying    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409232109911,"sku":"9781496222183","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496222183.jpg?v=1730506062","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/some-are-always-hungry-9781496222183","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}