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Poetry as essay, as a way of hovering over a subject, approaching it from positions of identity (Korean, American, adoptee, mother, Catholic, Buddhist) and interest (mythology, science fiction, Borges, Sophocles)—Sun Yung Shin moves ideas around like building blocks, forming and reforming new constructions of what it means to be a guest, to be a host. How to be at home.