“Shin’s poems enact what happens when the violence and erasure of history collide with the poetic impulse to make meaning.”
—The Star Tribune
“Shin’s work strikes me as more cerebral than lyrical. . . . Even her less experimental work . . . has a prose quality of fragments from old myths.”
—The Twin Cities Daily Planet
“As we follow Shin deeper down into her inferno, themes of separation, possession, and ignorance collide with images of war and violence.”
—Rain Taxi
“Blending academic research with her own composed text, Shin calls our attention to the erasures in history—erasures both deliberate and unconscious.”
—Hazel and Wren
“[Shin's] work is like a haunting yet intriguing fairy tale exploring thoughts about Korean North and South and the rising Western presence.”
—The Corresponder
“Rough, and Savage is a challenging and riveting exploration of such intimate yet universal issues. . . . Delicately executed and beautifully written.”
—Eleven Eleven
“In this inspired follow-up to Skirt Full of Black, [Shin] presents explosively imaginative poems that are never untethered from experiential reality.”
—ALIST Magazine
“Rough, and Savage . . . is simultaneously alluring and caustic, lovely and mournful, ambitious in both its moral ambition and literary invention.”
—The Knight Arts Blog
“Brave reader, walk to Shin’s hard light.”
—Douglas Kearney
“Sun Yung Shin is creating a new mythology.”
—Kazim Ali
