THE CENTER FOR KOREAN STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI’I AT MĀNOA PRESENTS:

Book Talk: Find Me as the Creature I Am

Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 3 - 5 pm

Location: Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

Find Me as the Creature I Am is a book full of tenderness and violence, longing and love. Ranging from inherited family tales to meditations on the body to animals’ display of love and grief alike, Emily Jungmin Yoon holds up a mirror to humanity to show that we are animal, too. In poems full of wonder and want, she showcases our tendencies to fight or fly, act with affection and cruelty, and ultimately, overflow with life itself.

Speakers:

Emily Jungmin Yoon is the author of Find Me as the Creature I Am (Alfred A. Knopf, 2024). She has also published A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco, 2018), a finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and a chapbook, Ordinary Misfortunes (Tupelo Press, 2017). Yoon is the poetry editor for The Margins, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and she is an assistant professor of Korean literature at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Joseph Han the author of Nuclear Family (Counterpoint Press, 2024), winner of the 2023 Asian/Pacific American Literature Award Adult Fiction Honor and the 2024 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. He is an Editor for the West region of Joyland Magazine, and co-chair of the Kundiman Hawaiʻi Regional Group. Han is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Co sponsored by the EALL Talk Series and the Department of English

The event is free and open to all. For further information, including information regarding disability access, telephone the Center for Korean Studies at 808-956-7041. This event is in part supported by the Academy of Korean Studies Strategic Research Institute Program (AKS-2020-SRI-2200001).

The University of Hawai‘i is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution.