Some Are Always Hungry
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Nebraska · Ebook · September 1, 2020
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Some Are Always Hungry chronicles a family’s wartime survival, immigration, and heirloom trauma through the lens of food, or the lack thereof.
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- Who it’s for
- Food becomes a lens for poems about diaspora, wartime survival, and what families carry forward.
- Themes
- Family wartime survival, Immigration and diaspora, Food, memory, and survival
- Pacing
- Reflective
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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Some Are Always Hungry chronicles a family’s wartime survival, immigration, and heirloom trauma through the lens of food, or the lack thereof. Through the vehicle of recipe, butchery, and dinner table poems, the collection negotiates the myriad ways diasporic communities comfort and name themselves in other nations, as well as the ways cuisine is inextricably linked to occupation, transmission, and survival.
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Dwelling on the personal as much as the historical, Some Are Always Hungry traces the lineage of the speaker’s place in history and diaspora through mythmaking and cooking, which is to say, conjuring.
At the Family Table
Food becomes a lens for poems about diaspora, wartime survival, and what families carry forward.
Come here for
- Recipe, butchery, and dinner-table poems
- The ties between cuisine, occupation, and survival
Expect
- Personal and historical threads woven through food
- Mythmaking and cooking as ways of tracing diaspora
Where it sits
| Asian American Poetry | 98% |
|---|---|
| War Poetry | 68% |
| Family Poems | 39% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Asian American Poetry
- Authors
- Jihyun Yun
- Publisher
- Nebraska
- Published
- September 1, 2020
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Family wartime survival · Immigration and diaspora · Food, memory, and survival
- Reading lane
- Asian American Poetry