Monica Youn is an award-winning poet whose latest collection, FROM FROM, pushes the boundaries of poetry, making it hard to categorize what she’s doing, even when you can see it. The general theme of the work is being Asian in the West, but mixed in is myth, fable, memoir, and journaling. While The New York Times calls it “a poetic dissection of America’s racial, racist derangement,” it’s affective and personal rather than polemic. It’s accessible to a general audience, notwithstanding that some of it is in a form a general audience would not recognize as poetry. Poets, especially, should read this book. It opens doors beyond prose poetry. Here’s what The NYT says: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/books/review/monica-youn-from-from-poems.html
