MONICA YOUN is the author of another poetry collection, Barter. She is an attorney in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law. She has been awarded poetry fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Stanford University. She lives in New York City.
"In Monica Youn's stunningly imaginative series Ignatz, George Herriman's comic-strip villainous mouse, Ignatz, is demoused and, with inexhaustible invention, transformed into an object of passion - not necessarily Krazy Kat's passion, this time, but definitely crazy. Here, in fact, Ignatz is less an object than a figure of life's heartbreakingly attractive, elusively multiple possibilities... Spare, choice, witty, daring, musical, itself never tiring, Youn's style is more than equal to both the romanticism and the grimness." CAL BEDIENT "No poet of Youn's generation has made more demands on herself - and none has done more in her art." STEPHEN BURT"
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