I Would Define the Sun: Poems (Vanderbilt University Literary Prize)

By: Stephanie Niu

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Synopsis: Stephanie Niu&’s I Would Define the Sun, awarded the 2024 Vanderbilt University Literary Prize, is a collection of poems that declare the impossibility of defining something as immense as the sun while striving toward that impossible act. In an era of planetary collapse, filled with bushfires, bleached coral, and burnout, Niu explores what love can do even through estrangement, even through being together at the end of the world. Recycling and folding language through duplexes, sestinas, and echoing couplets, this collection moves across great distances to include Christmas Island, Chinese-American immigration, and the precarity and abundance of the sea through formal and lyric poetry. Expansive in scope, Niu refits the world into a size &“made for [her] hands, [her] human tongue,&” propelling readers into continuous motion as she searches for home.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 72 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780826507723
Related ISBNs:: 9780826507716
Publisher:: Vanderbilt University Press
Date of Addition:: 02/18/25
Copyrighted By:: Stephanie Niu
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Foreword by:: Major Jackson