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  • Lady No

    by Kim Hyesoon ...
    Translated by Jack Saebyok Jung ...
    “Poetry in Korea has been a vaunted form—and traditionally left to men. Kim broke away from the masculine styles that came before her. . . . Kim has pursued a vernacular that’s intensely Korean yet open to the world.” —E. Tammy Kim, New YorkerFrom the legendary avant-garde poet Kim Hyesoon, a landmark collection documenting her first and only work of digital performance art to date.In March 2014, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Phantom Pain Wings

    by Kim Hyesoon ...
    Translated by Don Mee Choi ...
    Winged ventriloquy—a powerful new poetry collection channeling the language of birds by South Korea’s most innovative contemporary writerWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZEAn iconic figure in the emergence of feminist poetry in South Korea and now internationally renowned, Kim Hyesoon pushes the poetic envelope ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Autobiography of Death

    by Kim Hyesoon ...
    Translated by Don Mee Choi ...
    Kim Hyesoon’s poems “create a seething, imaginative under-and over-world where myth and politics, the everyday and the fabulous, bleed into each other” (Sean O’Brien, The Independent)*Winner of The Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award*The title section of Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine poems, each poem ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Hell of That Star

    by Kim Hyesoon ...
    Translated by Cindy Juyoung Ok ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    The astonishing poetry collection The Hell of That Star enlivens the horror of Korean life under U.S.-backed authoritarianism. Poems of blows and vomit, births and coffins alternate blithe confidence and trembling terror. When slapped seven times by a government censor, Kim responded with defiant poems. The death of language becomes a death of the writer; within death, Kim finds new life in ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

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    Lady No

    by Kim Hyesoon ...
    Narrated by Greta Jung ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 19 min

    From the legendary avant-garde poet Kim Hyesoon, a landmark collection documenting her first and only work of digital performance art to date.“Poetry in Korea has been a vaunted form—and traditionally left to men. Kim broke away from the masculine styles that came before her. . . . Kim has pursued a vernacular that’s intensely Korean yet open to the world.” —E. Tammy Kim, New YorkerIn March 2014, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • I'm OK, I'm Pig!

    by Kim Hyesoon ...
    Kim Hyesoon is one of South Korea's most important contemporary poets. She began publishing in 1979 and was one of the first few women in South Korea to be published in Munhak kwa jisong (Literature and Intellect), one of two key journals which championed the intellectual and literary movement against the US-backed military dictatorships of Park Chung Hee and Chun Doo Hwan in the 1970s and 80s. ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

  • poetica 4. Festival für Weltliteratur Beyond Identities

    by Yoko Tawada, Jeffrey Angles, Bei Dao, Günter Blamberger, Anneke Brassinga, Teju Cole, Heinrich Detering, Itô Hiromi, Hyesoon Kim, Barbara Köhler, Morten Søndergaard, Jan Wagner ...
    Die Texte (größtenteils Erstveröffentlichungen) widmen sich poetischen Identitätsspielen. Welcher Zauber liegt im Spiel der Identitäten, im Wandel der Formen? Wie wirken Literatur, Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit aufeinander? Was können die Figuren des Dritten versprechen, die sich zwischen Kulturen, Ethnien, Geschlechtern und Sprachen bewegen? Yoko Tawada stellte das Thema, schrieb selbst einen ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    by Wang Yin ...
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    A new, bilingual collection of poetry by a pioneering, multi-talented Chinese writer and photographer in a landmark English translation.“My poems are flecks of salt clinging ambivalently to a horse’s back,” Wang Yin writes. This is the first comprehensive collection of this important Chinese poet’s work to appear in English, translated by Andrea Lingenfelter. Readers can follow the full arc of his ... Read more

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  • Sea Summit

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    by Yi Lu ...
    Translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain ...
    Translated to English, this collection of contemporary Chinese poetry examines humanity's relationship with nature and the ecological crisis.Influenced by both the "gray, sinister sea" near the village where Yi Lu grew up during the Cultural Revolution, and the beauty of the sea in the books she read as a child, Sea Summit is a collection of paradox and questioning. The sea is an impossible force ... Read more

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  • The Book of Things

    by Ales Steger ...
    Translated by Brian Henry ...
    From his first book of poems, Chessboards of Hours (1995), Aleš Šteger has been one of Slovenia's most promising poets. The philosophical and lyrical sophistication of his poems, along with his work as a leading book editor and festival organizer, quickly spread Šteger's reputation beyond the borders of Slovenia. The Book of Things is Šteger's most widely praised book of poetry and his first ... Read more

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  • Sky, Wind, and Stars

    by Yun Dong-ju, Kyung-nyun Kim Richards, Steffen R. Richards ...
    Born and raised in northern Manchuria during the colonial period of Korea, Yun Dong-ju was a poet of the utmost purity, beauty, and sincerity. His posthumously published collection of poems under the title Sky, wind, stars, and poems is one of the all-time favorites of Korean readers. Wishing not to have so much as a speck of shame toward heaven until the day I die, I suffered, even when the wind ... Read more

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  • Quiet Night Think

    Poems & Essays

    by Gillian Sze ...
    “Quiet Night Think is a stunning work.” — Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing“One function of the poet at any time is to discover by his own thought and feeling what seems to him to be poetry at that time,” writes Wallace Stevens. In Quiet Night Think, award-winning poet Gillian Sze expresses her own definition.During the remarkable period of early parenthood, Sze’s new maternal ... Read more

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