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Grotesque Weather and Good People
Paperback
Series: The Moon Country Korean Poetry
Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry
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ISBN13: 9781939568434
Publisher: Black Ocean
Published: Jun 21 2022
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.83 Depth: 7.32
Language: English
By turns humorous and dark, these poems explore the simultaneous intimacy and alienation of everyday life in urban Seoul. Writing in a simple vernacular, Lim Solah's lyric I struggles with the poet's call to wonder in a world lurking with quiet dissonance and horror.
While BTS light up the charts and Korean films gather international awards, Lim's poems paint a strange and disorienting map of the consciousness of the so-called spec generation that calls their country Hell Chosun. This is a voice on fire from a world on fire. Readers from Seoul to Seattle to Slovenia to Singapore will find it familiar. Since that world is also the one in which we all live.
Curated by Jake Levine, the Moon Country Korean Poetry Series publishes new English translations of contemporary Korean poetry by both mid-career and up-and-coming poets who debuted after the IMF crisis. By introducing work that comes out of our shared milieu, this series not only aims to widen the field of contemporary Korean poetry available in English translation, but also to challenge orientalist, neo-colonial, and national literature discourses. Our hope is that readers will inhabit these books as bodies of experience rather than view them as objects of knowledge, that they will allow themselves to be altered by them, and emerge from the page with eyes that seem to see a world that belongs to another star.
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