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collage
Comedy
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Experimental
Fandom
forthcoming
G-Dragon
gestural language
Hybrid
identity
K-Pop
Korean
Korean American
language
Multilingual
Musical
Performance
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polyphonic
sonic
voices
Product details
- ISBN 9781643623214
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 05 Nov 2026
- Publisher: Nightboat Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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B-Dragon Suite is a hybrid poetry collection that remixes K-pop, experimental translation, sound art, and emoji poetics to explore Korean diasporic identity.
This debut book of poetry treats translation as play, performance, and embodied sound. Across seven interlinked sections, Stine An stages a fabulated K-pop universe, complete with boy band LIL BANG and girl group The Pink Blossoms, alongside lyric poems and prose meditations that code-switch between Korean and English. The book situates K-pop as both pleasure engine and cultural archive, asking how language survives colonial history, migration, and spectacle without resolving into easy consumption.
Stine An is a poet, translator, and performer based in New York City. She holds a BA in Literature from Harvard and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown, and has received fellowships and grants from The Poetry Project, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, Yaddo, ALTA, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her publications include Today's Morning Vocabulary by Yoo Heekyung (2025), Winter Night Rabbit Worries by Yoo Heekyung (2026), S_MMER CR_SH (2025), and Comet & Star written by Lee Juck and illustrated by Lee Jinhee (2024). Her debut poetry collection, B-Dragon Suite, won the 2023 Nightboat Poetry Prize.
