{"product_id":"9781551529776","title":"i cut my tongue on a broken country","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA debut poetry collection about reconciling with oneself and learning to love, through a youthful, queer diasporic Korean lens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLotus 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKyo Lee's intimate debut poetry collection is simultaneously a vulnerable confession and a micro study of macro topics including lineage, family, war, and hope. \u003ci\u003ei cut my tongue on a broken country\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ei cut my tongue on a broken country\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kyo Lee (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Arsenal Pulp Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2025-03-18","offer_id":46231203545343,"sku":"9781551529776","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b9925286-d4e9-4c06-891d-c64cb04e0d90.jpg?v=1729020555","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781551529776","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}