Monica Youn's From From is a masterwork of a poetry collection, with poems that span different styles but contain interconnected themes like otherness, race and racism, femininity, and history and myth. Youn's prose poetry is particularly impressive, effectively pushing the line between poetry and prose, as she turns parables and historical digressions into poems.

The subjects of her poems include Dr. Seuss, various characters from Greek mythology, magpies, and herself. Heads up: if you start the collection and you aren't sure you have the necessary background on the mythological characters or major symbols, there are notes at the back of the book that fill in the gaps.