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Kenji C. Liu

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Japan

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Poetry, Creative Non Fiction, Arts & Photography

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Kenji C. Liu is author of Monsters I Have Been (2019, Alice James Books) and Map of an Onion, 2015 national winner of the Hillary Gravendyk Prize (also shortlisted as a finalist for the Hong Kong University International Poetry Prize). His writing appears in Anomaly, Apogee, The American Poetry Review, Asian American Literary Review, Barrow Street Journal, CURA, RHINO, Split This Rock's poem of the week series, several anthologies, and two chapbooks, including Craters: A Field Guide (2017, Goodmorning Menagerie). A recipient of fellowships from Kundiman, VONA/Voices, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, and the Community of Writers, he holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology and Social Transformation. ...more

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	Monsters I Have Been 3.92 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Map of an Onion 4.63 avg rating — 16 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Left Without Your Shoes 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kartika Review: 2009-2010 Anthology by Sunny Woan (Editor), Jennifer Derilo (Editor), Christine Lee Zilka (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Your Ear: Selected Writings from Oakland Word by Kenji C. Liu (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Daniel Alarcón (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Oscar Bermeo (Goodreads Author) (Associate Editor) 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Infinite Constellations: An Anthology of Identity, Culture, and Speculative Conjunctions by Khadijah Queen (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Kiini Ibura Salaam (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kenzie Allen (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of Color: Poets' Ways of Making: An Anthology of Essays on Transformative Poetics by Amanda Galvan Huynh (Editor), Luisa A. Igloria (Editor), Mai Der Vang (Foreword) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Be The Town by Kenji C. Liu (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Oscar Bermeo (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Amir Rabiyah (Goodreads Author) (Associate Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A so-so read, with plot holes and an unbelievable range of vocabulary words in dialogues between teenagers. Not sure if I want to try the second book.
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“I think the poetry community works better when it is cooperative and generous. Poetry shouldn’t be just another capitalist product." —
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, whose poetry collection Monsters I Have Been”
― Kenji C. Liu, Monsters I Have Been

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“The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than himself. A 'soul' inhabits him and brings him to existence...the soul is the effect and instrument of political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.”
― Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

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“This is the historical reality of the soul, which, unlike the soul represented by Christian theology, is not born in sin and subject to punishment, but is born rather out of methods of punishment, supervision, and constraint.”
― Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

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“Visibility is a trap.”
― Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

tags: critical-theory, philoaophy, society

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“But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: goodness, wisdom

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