{"product_id":"bias-mark-kyungsoo-minor-destpb","title":"[09\/01\/26] Bias, Mark Kyungsoo: Minor Destructions","description":"\u003cp\u003eGaudy Boy, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 1, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“[A] rare achievement.”—Ocean Vuong, author, \u003cem\u003eThe Emperor of Gladness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Luminous, intimate, and unafraid.”—Peter Gizzi, author, \u003cem\u003eFierce Elegy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelected by Eric Gamalinda as the winner of the 2025 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize, \u003cem\u003eMinor Destructions\u003c\/em\u003e is a poetic testament of faith after loss and grief.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving between Korea and the United States, \u003cem\u003eMinor Destructions\u003c\/em\u003e testifies to the fractures of adoption, the intimacies of grief, and, eventually, the recovery of faith. In Mark Kyungsoo Bias’s debut, loss is not an isolated event but an ongoing condition, a residue that stains desire and stifles prayer long after the moment of rupture has passed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlending lyric poems, prose passages, and fragments to test what language can hold when inheritance feels unspeakable, the collection insists that meaning is made not through resolution but through what we choose to carry forward. At once intimate and expansive, \u003cem\u003eMinor Destructions\u003c\/em\u003e is a meditation on how we live with what cannot be repaired—how, despite erasure, silence, and grief, we continue to speak.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45248149127191,"sku":"9781958652299","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/1779064331-900.png?v=1782682524","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/bias-mark-kyungsoo-minor-destpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}