Find Me As the Creature I Am
Poems
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · October 22, 2024
From one of the sharpest up-and-coming voices in contemporary poetry, a stunning collection that explores our most fundamental instincts, capacity for affection, and the ways in which we resemble the wild Find Me as the Creature I Am is a book full of tenderness and violence, longing and love.
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- Who it’s for
- These poems look at family, bodies, and the wild to ask what makes us creatures together.
- Themes
- Human-animal kinship, Family heritage, Love and grief
- Genres
- Asian American Poetry, Nature Poetry, Family Poems
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From one of the sharpest up-and-coming voices in contemporary poetry, a stunning collection that explores our most fundamental instincts, capacity for affection, and the ways in which we resemble the wild Find Me as the Creature I Am is a book full of tenderness and violence, longing and love.
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Ranging from inherited family tales to meditations on the body to animals’ display of love and grief alike, Emily Jungmin Yoon holds up a mirror to humanity to show that we are animal, too. In poems full of wonder and want, she showcases our tendencies to fight or fly, act with affection and cruelty, and ultimately, overflow with life itself. “And when I say we are beasts, / is that a metaphor?” Yoon asks, exploring how we—like language, like any creature—stem from our surroundings. Braiding together reflections about the natural world, family heritage, and adoration, Yoon shows that what passes between us—body to body, generation to generation—is what defines a life. Deeply felt and beautifully crafted, Find Me as the Creature I Am is a rapturous collection by a rising star in the poetry landscape.
Human, Animal
These poems look at family, bodies, and the wild to ask what makes us creatures together.
Come here for
- The uneasy kinship between human instinct and the animal world
- Family heritage held alongside longing and adoration
Expect
- Tenderness and violence sharing the same pages
- Wonder, want, and reflections on what passes between generations
Where it sits
| Nature Poetry | 78% |
|---|---|
| Family Poems | 52% |
| Asian American Poetry | 50% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- American Poetry
- Asian American Poetry
- Family Poems
- Authors
- Emily Jungmin Yoon
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- October 22, 2024
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Human-animal kinship · Family heritage · Love and grief
- Reading lane
- American Poetry