I Would Define the Sun: Poems by Niu, Stephanie
I Would Define the Sun: Poems by Niu, Stephanie

I Would Define the Sun: Poems

Stephanie Niu's I Would Define the Sun, awarded the 2024 Vanderbilt University Literary Prize, is a collection...
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Author: Stephanie Niu
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Language: English
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I Would Define the Sun: Poems by Niu, Stephanie

I Would Define the Sun: Poems

$56.80
I Would Define the Sun: Poems by Niu, Stephanie

I Would Define the Sun: Poems

$56.80
Author: Stephanie Niu
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Stephanie Niu's 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.

Author: Stephanie Niu
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 02/15/2025
Pages: 72
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.23d
ISBN: 9780826507716

About the Author
Stephanie Niu is a poet and writer from Marietta, Georgia. She is the author of the chapbooks Survived By: An Atlas of Disappearance (winner of the 2023 Host Publications Chapbook Prize) and She Has Dreamt Again of Water (winner of the 2021 Diode Editions Chapbook Contest). Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, Literary Hub, Copper Nickel, and Ecotone Magazine, among other publications. She is the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship for research on Christmas Island's labor history, through which she led youth poetry workshops and published the zine Our Island, Our Future. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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