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Phantom Pain Wings

Phantom Pain Wings

Hyesoon, Kim
Choi, Don Mee

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 0811231712
ISBN13: 9780811231718
Publisher: New Directions
Published: May 2 2023
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
An iconic figure in the emergence of feminist poetry in South Korea and now internationally renowned, Kim Hyesoon pushes the poetic envelope into the farthest reaches of the lyric universe. In her new collection, Kim depicts the memory of war trauma and the collective grief of parting through what she calls an I-do-bird-sequence, where Bird-human is the 'I.' Her remarkable essay Bird Rider explains: I came to write Phantom Pain Wings after Daddy passed away. I called out for birds endlessly. I wanted to become a translator of bird language. Bird language that flies to places I've never been. What unfolds is an epic sequence of bird ventriloquy exploring the relentless physical and existential struggles against power and gendered violence in the eternal void of grief (Victoria Chang, The New York Times Magazine). Through intensely rhythmic lines marked by visual puns and words that crash together and then fly away as one, Kim mixes traditional folklore and mythology with contemporary psychodramatic realities as she taps into a cremation ceremony, the legacies of Rimbaud and Yi Sang, a film by Agnes Varda, Francis Bacon's portrait of Pope Innocent X, cyclones, a princess trapped in a hospital, and more. A simultaneity of voices and identities rises and falls, existing and exiting on their delayed wings of pain.

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