{"product_id":"i-would-define-the-sun-poems-paperback","title":"I Would Define the Sun: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephanie Niu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMajor Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephanie Niu's \u003ci\u003eI Would Define the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephanie Niu\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and writer from Marietta, Georgia. She is the author of the chapbooks \u003ci\u003eSurvived By: An Atlas of Disappearance\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the 2023 Host Publications Chapbook Prize) and \u003ci\u003eShe Has Dreamt Again of Water\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the 2021 Diode Editions Chapbook Contest). Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Missouri Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Literary Hub, \u003ci\u003eCopper Nickel\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEcotone Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. She is the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship for research on Christmas Island's labor history, through which she led youth poetry workshops and published the zine \u003ci\u003eOur Island, Our Future\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 18, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47418514800818,"sku":"9780826507716","price":25.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/4e49095e45904e883b2fbbc21df7ade3.webp?v=1778452215","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/i-would-define-the-sun-poems-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}