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Man on Extremely Small Island

By Jason Koo
2009, 88 pages, Paperback.

Winner of the 2010 Asian American Writers' Workshop Members' Choice Award



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"Jason Koo's Man on Extremely Small Island is an absurdly funny meditation on loneliness, desire and the silences between us. By turns mythic and pop, Koo's poems explore the anger, betrayal and compromises of young love, as well as the complexities of communication within families. Man on Extremely Small Island is a self-effacing look at anguish, an expansive and inclusive debut."
--Denise Duhamel, author of Ka-Ching!

"Despite the voluminosity of these poems, they celebrate and capture the spirit of inner malaise that permeates modernity, all over our towns, cities and small islands. There, in the language, and in the languorous, frustrating rhythms is a portrait of our being that strikes me as original and ritualistic. This is exciting writing that will make its mark."
--Major Jackson, author of Hoops

"The poems in this book are haunted by love. Koo writes plaintively, honestly, persuasively about his experiences and the dimensions of longing. His work is also socially astute, incorporating references to both 'high' and 'low' culture to convey the weave of information and experience that shapes how we connect to the world. In that respect, the poems expand beyond the personal into a larger examination of desire. As Koo writes, 'This is for the romantics, / the ones who install themselves in diners at night, / hogging the booths with their books, / hunched over the moonlight / of pages.' I find his vision expansive and humane."
--Bob Hicok, author of Words for Empty and Words for Full

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Background on Jason Koo

Jason Koo was born in New York City and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He holds a B.A. in English from Yale, an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Houston and a Ph.D. in English and creative writing from the University of Missouri-Columbia. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center, he has published his poetry and prose in numerous journals, including The Missouri Review, North American Review, and The Yale Review. He currently lives in New York, where he teaches at NYU and Lehman College and serves as Poetry Editor of Low Rent.

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