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I´m Ok, I´m Pig!
Kim Hyesoon
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Description for I´m Ok, I´m Pig!
Paperback. First British edition of leading South Korean poet known for her innovative experimental feminist poetry. Translator(s): Choi, Don Mee. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 11. Weight in Grams: 318.
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. Don Mee Choi writes: 'Kim's poetry goes beyond the expectations of established aesthetics and traditional "female poetry" (yoryusi), which is characterised by its passive, refined language. In her experimental work she explores women's ... Read more
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. Don Mee Choi writes: 'Kim's poetry goes beyond the expectations of established aesthetics and traditional "female poetry" (yoryusi), which is characterised by its passive, refined language. In her experimental work she explores women's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780371023
SKU
9781780371023
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About Kim Hyesoon
Kim Hyesoon 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. She has since ... Read more
Reviews for I´m Ok, I´m Pig!
'Kim Hyesoon writes flowingly and choreographically a panorama of hovering hatelove for the birthing body, for cruelty and existence and for the expansive thinking and dizzyingly borderless universe-geography. Kim Hyesoon writes hatelove as a stone-hard feminist life-and-death dance. As garbage, love and death accumulate in her poems, your world will be changed for real!' - Aase Berg. 'Miraculous weaponry! Miraculous ... Read more