Master

by Simon Shieh

Book Overview

Winner of the 2022 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Terrance Hayes.

The debut collection from Simon Shieh, Master is a stark, surreal, and imagistic reckoning with a traumatic past. Autobiographical in nature, Master follows the writer's struggle with masculinity from a martial arts school in upstate New York to a boxing academy in Beijing. Language emerges in this collection not as a neutral witness to a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1956046216
• ISBN13: 9781956046212
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.8"