Results for "Koh, E. J."

As heard on NPR'S All Things Considered "Spare, beautiful and richly layered, The Liberators is dazzling." —Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage “A piercing, patient debut by one of our finest chroniclers of American han. You won't know what hit you until the final, perfect image.” —Ed... Read More about The Liberators

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and the Washington State Book Award in Biography/Memoir Named One of the Best Books by Asian American Writers by Oprah Daily Longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award The Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching lov... Read More about The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and the Washington State Book Award in Biography/Memoir Named One of the Best Books by Asian American Writers by Oprah Daily Longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award The Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching lov... Read More about The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir

A successor to Korean feminist poets like Kim Hyesoon, Yi Won frequently writes about the perilousness of maintaining one's human identity in a high-tech, digital environment. In this debut book in English, her poems range from avant-garde prose poems to more lyrical, if dark, free verse, as she exa... Read More about The World's Lightest Motorcycle

A Lesser Love is a book of love poems and elegies for those who have fumbled and stumbled and disappointed. These are poems of love and departure for romantic partners, family members, even countries and communities. Raised around diasporic Korean communities, E. J. Koh has descibred her work as dee... Read More about A Lesser Love: Poems

A tale of deep bonds to family, place, language―of hard-won selfhood told by a singular, incandescent voice. After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji's parents return to Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in the family's new California home. Overnight, Eu... Read More about The Magical Language of Others Lib/E: A Memoir