An edition of Some Are Always Hungry
(2020)
Some Are Always Hungry
by Jihyun Yun
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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. 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.
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Some Are Always Hungry
Sep 01, 2020, University of Nebraska Press
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Table of Contents
All Female
My Grandmother
Thinks of Love while Steeping Tea
Passage, 1951
Bone Soup, 1951
For Now, Nothing Burns
Diptych of Girl in 1953
Field Notes from My Grandparents
Immigration
Homonyms
I Revisit Myself in 1996
War Soup
The Daughter Transmorphic
Yellow Fever
Saga of the Nymph and the Woodcutter
Fish Head Soup
Recipe: 닭도리탕
Diptych of Animal and Womb
Aubade
Mother Undresses
Blood Type
Lilith
Husband Stitch
The Tale of Janghwa and Hongryeon
Caught
Menstruation Triptych
Some Are Always Hungry
Immigration
Benediction as Disdained Cuisine
Praise
Thirst
Homecoming
Savaging
Revisitations
The Leaving Season
Reversal
Grandmother, Praying
Acknowledgments
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