{"id":40,"date":"2022-06-23T20:18:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T20:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christinekwonwrites.com\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2024-06-27T00:50:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T00:50:46","slug":"book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/christinekwonwrites.com\/?page_id=40","title":{"rendered":"book"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"40\" class=\"elementor elementor-40\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2a04fb7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2a04fb7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a55dad1\" data-id=\"a55dad1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-35cafe5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"35cafe5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christinekwonwrites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4894.jpg?fit=668%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-273\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christinekwonwrites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4894.jpg?w=688&amp;ssl=1 688w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christinekwonwrites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4894.jpg?resize=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1 196w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christinekwonwrites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4894.jpg?resize=668%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 668w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aee7844 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"aee7844\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>BUY HERE from <a href=\"https:\/\/blacklawrencepress.com\/books\/a-ribbon-the-most-perfect-blue\/\">Black Lawrence Press (super preferred!)<\/a><\/p><p>BUY HERE<a href=\"https:\/\/bluecypressbooks.indielite.org\/book\/9798986859309\"> from a local New Orleans bookstore for a signed copy\u00a0<\/a><\/p><p>BUY on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ribbon-Perfect-Cowles-Poetry-Winner\/dp\/B0BPNLPJJ9\">AMAZON<\/a><\/p><p><strong><em>2022 winner of the Cowles Poetry Book Prize<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"color: rgba(6, 6, 6, 0.99);\"><span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">PRAISE FOR\u00a0<i>A RIBBON THE MOST PERFECT BLUE:<\/i><\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif;\">\u201cThese poems luxuriate on elegance in a way that feels entirely necessary, the way Garbo&#8217;s eyes lit up the Great Depression or Julie London&#8217;s voice puts you in the moods to open your flower. Kwon&#8217;s casually gorgeous lines are the best thing since melted butter.\u201d\u2014<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">D.A. POWELL<\/span><i><\/i><\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: #333333; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\">\u201cI&#8217;m in love with the voice of these poems\u2014a witty, sly, sad, generous heart that lives deeply in this world and yet mobilizes language with the freedom and ease of dreams&#8230;\u201d\u2014<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">RACHEL HINTON<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: #333333; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: #333333; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\">\u201cThere are poems who know the names of trees, poets who don\u2019t, and now Christine Kwon, a poet who does know the tree\u2019s name, but who pretends not to, only sharing with her readers the incredible privacy of knowing.\u201d\u2014<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SOPHIA DAHLIN<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: #333333; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: #333333; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cChristine Kwon has a playfully no-nonsense way with the agitations of being someone\u2019s child, someone\u2019s partner, someone\u2019s poet, someone\u2019s self. \u201cThese people inside me\/ make me nervous,\u201d she writes, as her poems briskly and brazenly bear the tumults of inwardness. 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