The Sanctuary of Becoming

The Sanctuary of Becoming

Stephanie Niu’s I Would Define the Sun The poems in Stephanie Niu’s debut collection, I Would Define the Sun, revel in expansive spaces of mystery: the ocean’s vast depths, the unfathomable origins of planets and galaxies, the dark of a mother’s womb. And in each of these settings, the most prized human experience is awe. Unleashing high emotion and open-hearted spirit into these poems, Niu foregrounds the link between the unknowable complexity …