Godina izdanja: 2013
ISBN: 978-1-300-63175-0
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Poetry from 2011-2013

Izdavač: Izdanje autora
Povez: broširan
Broj strana: 101
Obrisi tečnosti po obodu korica i nekoliko prvih i poslednjih listova, manje presavijanje prednje korice, sve ostalo OK.

As Shinji Moon`s debut book of poetry, The Anatomy of Being is youthful and fragmented, a journey inward from the perspective of the hopes and pains of adolescence. Broken up into four chapters, she holds your hand and takes you inward with her, from skin to flesh, to flesh to bones, from bones to all that lies within. Both heartbreaking and hopeful, The Anatomy of Being marks a very distinct time in a young girl`s life, and aches and aches to be heard and devoured.

SELF PORTRAIT

There are certain things about myself
that I romanticize, like the way I have Orion’s belt on my chin
or the way my grandmother gave me her hands:
gift-wrapped and covered in flour.

Yesterday, I found a birthmark on my inner thigh
of a heart or split milk
and this morning I found that
there’s nothing that a person can do
to make me feel more beautiful, than to
trace me like I hold
simpler lines
beneath me.

It’s so easy to fool myself into believing that yes,
of course there are constellations on my skin, or
freckles in the night, as if my body
is a pool that reflects the sky.

But all of this
isn’t me being a dreamer,
or a spilt-milk, heart-shaped romantic.

It’s just me
trying to turn this husk of muscle and dirty fingernails
into something more,

as something
that I can hold like
my grandmother’s hands,

as something
I can keep closer to me /
than my own flesh.

(K-108)