{"product_id":"master-9781956046212","title":"Master","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Terrance Hayes.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe debut collection from Simon Shieh, \u003ci\u003eMaster\u003c\/i\u003e is a stark, surreal, and imagistic reckoning with a traumatic past. \u003ci\u003eMaster\u003c\/i\u003e follows the speaker's struggle with masculinity from a martial arts school in upstate New York to a boxing academy in Beijing. Language emerges in this collection not as a neutral witness to a boy's subjugation, but as the very tool of hegemony, though one which also holds the key to its own undoing, and therefore to freedom. As much as \u003ci\u003eMaster\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of pain, it is also a journey to healing, illuminating that while violence can be our patrimony, it does not have to be our destiny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Shieh\u003c\/b\u003e is a Taiwanese American poet and essayist. He has lived in upstate New York and Beijing, China, where he co-founded \u003ci\u003eSpittoon Literary Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, which translates the best new Chinese writing into English. From 2008-2014 he competed as an amateur and professional Muay Thai fighter in China, Brazil, Argentina, Thailand, and the U.S. Simon's work has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He lives in the U.S. with his wife, Charlotte, and their dog, Momo. \u003ci\u003eMaster\u003c\/i\u003e is his first collection of poems.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50631490437394,"sku":"9781956046212","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_09c24c32-6af2-455c-8969-c5676fff5d41.jpg?v=1732774084","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/master-9781956046212","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}