The Temperature of this Water (BOOK)* #1 selling book, The Asian American Writers' Workshop 2004-2005 * Winner of the PEN America/Beyond Margins Award 2005 * Winner of the Asian American Literary Awards Members' Choice Award 2005 *
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Reviews for The Temperature of This Water:
"Listen to this soaring voice, this beautiful and terrible song of the city. An extraordinary debut."
— Martin Espada, Author of Alabanza: New and Selected Poems
"A searingly honest and compelling writer, Park is both deeply political and full of heart."
— Elaine Kim, University of California, Berkeley
"These are poems that needed to be written, and need to be widely read."
— Kim Addonizio, Author of What Is This Thing Called Love
"Here is a brilliant, young, 21st-century Korean American woman testing the waters, exploring, searching, loving, and learning about life's temperatures. Ishle Yi Park is a woman of depth and breadth."
— Yuri Kochiyama
"Ishle has got serious skills. Her first book, titled The Temperature of This Water is filled with remarkably written poetry and prose. Her writing captures a youthful honesty that is refreshing and genuine...The book is easy to follow, and it holds the reader captive from start to finish." Tribes Review of Books
"Sometimes brutal, sometimes erotic, but always laced with the strength of this ethic of love, The Temperature of This Water is a powerful work. It is filled with vivid accounts of survival and companionship, visceral descriptions told with sincere urgency, and sprinkled with wit and humor. This book is an important one for Asian American literature. Not only is it a wonderful volume in and of itself, it is the literary debut of a young talent that is certain to be one of our most important voices." — Kearny Street Review
Work is Love (CD)This debut CD includes 12 tracks of poems and songs with acoustic guitar, korean traditional drums, beatbox, and a track produced by critically acclaimed DJ Honda.
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Praise for Work is Love:
"This debut album from Korean American spoken word artist Ishle Yi Park is a collection of poetry and songs that combines her verse with acoustic guitar, Korean traditional drums, and hip hop beats...Work is Love makes you hear her words in the way she intended them to be heard—loudly and softly, spoken and sung." — Colorlines Magazine
Girl Fish (chapbook)This chapbook is a compilation of old photos, poems, and a story. 20 pieces, including Chejudo Dreams, Pussy, and Objects in Flight. Pictures of me and my lil' bro and cousins, and many personal pieces. Currently in its 4th printing (i.e. photocopying furiously afterwork).
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God Sits in Hwa Lei Market (chapbook -new)This chapbook is about being in war, and being in love, and how those two aspects of being can sometimes get entangled in each other. Includes poems, poem-stories, and a folk tale.
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Feedback Poets (CD)A self-entitled CD by 11 fierce and dynamic Asian American artists: Mas Yamagata, Chia-Ti Chiu, Helen Yum, Kai Ma, Hyun Jung Hwang, F. Omar Telan, Taiyo Takeda, Nancy Yap, Beau Sia, Tim Arevalo, and me. Includes secret tracks, Korean traditional drums, beatboxing, and pieces that made us cry in the studio. A must-have.
SOLD OUT — please check www.aaww.org for copies.