From From Autobiography of Red and re-performed in memory

and re-performed in memory

Mysterious

Appropriating iconic American tropes

from metaphysical and erotic rhetorical effusion to condensed and radically concrete experiment

publishing nineteen books of poems during his lifetime

From From Autobiography of Red and re-performed in memoryMonica Youn Where are you from . . . ? Nowhere are you from from? Its a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying youll never belong here, youre a perpetual foreigner, youll always be seen as an alien, an object, or a threat. Monica Youns From From brilliantly evokes the conflicted consciousness of deracination. If you have no core of authenticity, no experience of your so called homeland, how do you piece together