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[hyperallergic] The Sick World of Kim Hyesoon

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Article
https://hyperallergic.com/120043/the-sick-world-of-kim-hyesoon/
Journal
Hyperallergic
Issued Date
April 13, 2014
Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
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Book
Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream
Writer
Kim Hyesoon
Translator
Don Mee Choi

About the Author

  • Kim Hyesoon
  • Birth : 1955 ~ -
  • Occupation : Poet
  • First Name : Hyesoon
  • Family Name : Kim
  • Korean Name : 김혜순
  • ISNI : 0000000078656481
  • Works : 35
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  • English(English)

The body is a sick place. Its reality is viscera. Kim Hyesoon’s poems are composed of these unsightly and unpleasant viscera. They squirm, blind and deaf like newborn puppies, then grow up and live in a dog-eat-dog world. This world is called Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream. (...)

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