I Cut My Tongue on a Broken Country

By Kyo Lee

Book Overview

A debut poetry collection about reconciling with oneself and learning to love, through a youthful, queer diasporic Korean lens

Lotus flowers, youthful hunger, and other temporary beauties intertwine to tell this coming-of-age story, a set of pulsating poems that move toward a distant memory or a flaming future.

Kyo Lee's intimate debut poetry collection is simultaneously a vulnerable confession and a micro study of macro topics including lineage, family, war, and hope. i cut my tongue on a broken country explores the Asian American diaspora, queerness, girlhood, and the relationships between and within them, pushing and pulling on the boundaries of identity and language like a story trying to tell itself.

i cut my tongue on a broken country documents a search for love. It's a eulogy for the things we gave up to get here. It's an ode to tenderness. It blossoms and bleeds in your hands.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551529777
• ISBN13: 9781551529776
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 7.9"