I Would Define the Sun: Poems (Vanderbilt University Literary Prize) (Volume 1)
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I Would Define the Sun: Poems (Vanderbilt University Literary Prize) (Volume 1)
Book Details
- Author
- Stephanie Niu
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780826507716
- ISBN-10
- 0826507719
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ISBN: 0826507719
Author: Niu, Stephanie
Condition: New
Finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, 2026Stephanie Nius I Would Define the Sun, awarded the 2024 Vanderbilt University Literary Prize, is a collection of poems that declare the impossibility of defining something as immense as the sun while striving toward that impossible act. In an era of planetary collapse, filled with bushfires, bleached coral, and burnout, Niu explores what love can do even through estrangement, even through being together at the end of the world. Recycling and folding language through duplexes, sestinas, and echoing couplets, this collection moves across great distances to include Christmas Island, Chinese-American immigration, and the precarity and abundance of the sea through formal and lyric poetry. Expansive in scope, Niu refits the world into a size made for [her] hands, [her] human tongue, propelling readers into continuous motion as she searches for home.
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I Would Define the Sun: Poems (Vanderbilt University Literary Prize) (Volume 1)
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