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Tigers is an exploration of a series of mutigenerational landscapes of the feminine–female adolescence, womanhood, motherhood, and personal revelation. Where the traditional coming of age story moves from “innocence to experience,” Tigers moves, through the excavation of trauma, addiction, recovery, adolescence, parenthood, and punk rock, from the ignorance and misunderstanding of a youth’s misbegotten “toughness,” into a turning inward toward tenderness and resilience—toward, in essence, what it really takes to be mature, “tough,” and–tigerly. With a principle focus on the dangers threatening girlhood, this book examines not merely the threat of degradation and assault, but, more deeply, the squandering of love through ignorance and inattention. Tigers here surely serve as symbols for such outward and inward threat, but also as a sign of the mature and tender maternal toughness of youth-grown-wise through trial and reclamation.
Praise
“It’s the “impossible light” (“To You I Bequeath”) that carries us, the strength, the animal of the body, the skill crafted from shame and patriarchy. Young brilliantly gives us these testaments as a means to show how we can gather our pasts, our ghosts, our tigers, and use them for channeling strength. The speaker in Tigers, like us, is “not ready to die. / I stay sharp, pointed. / I won’t resemble prey. / This is mine” (“Birth”). These are important poems rendered beautifully, poems that strike a nerve, feel like a familiar glance in the mirror, and teach us how to reclaim ourselves. And we are better for it.” – Amanda Auchter, Blood Orange Review
“Among lists, stanzaic pieces, and open-handed poems, Young’s most dynamic mode is the prose poem. She makes exquisite use of the syntax of a temper—density, control, and pressurized psychology—or the cognitive cascade of revelations in her associatively-woven meditations.” – Sara Ellen Fowler, RHINO
“Fair warning: these are ferocious poems, ruthless and ingenious in their determination to tell the truth about female survival (particularly what it takes to raise a young daughter in this moment in America) before that truth is erased or scabbed over or sold as cultural currency. Present and prescient, Young’s speaker notices everything in the fallen world. Her brash aesthetic edge is trauma layered with dark comedy—self-conscious, vibrant, shocking, dear. Street wise and surprisingly delicate, too. Be prepared, reader, to be jolted awake. ” – Dorothy Barresi
“How to describe Kim Young’s accomplishment in Tigers? Perhaps a series of bullet points would suggest something of the depth: a voice from the margins; a guide to holding on to hope; a handbook for exiles; a manual of reclamation; a cantata from the silenced; an alchemical conversion of shame. Tigers is all this and more. Above all, it affirms how fiercely we must love our lives on earth. And love our daughters.” – Marsha de la O
“Even before you reach the first of the myriad “Mother Ghost” poems in this mesmerizing collection, you’ll realize you’re falling—in the best way—for the speaker’s embrace of what haunts. Young turns language into prismatic sprites who run in all directions. If you are wise, you will run after them.” – Lynne Thompson
About the Author
Kim Young is the author Night Radio, winner of the 2011 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize (The University of Utah Press) and finalist for the 2014 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the chapbook Divided Highway (Dancing Girl Press, 2008). She lives in Los Angeles with her family.
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