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Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days?

Author
Kim Eon Hee
Co-Author
-
Translator
Sung Gi Kim,Kim Eunsong
Publisher
Noemi Press
Published Year
2019
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Poetry > 21st century poetry

Original Title
요즘 우울하십니까?
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Yojeum uulhasimnikka?
ISBN
9781934819814
Page
115
Volume
-
Writer default image
  • Kim Eon Hee
  • Birth : - ~ Unknown
  • Occupation : Poet
  • First Name : Eon Hee
  • Family Name : Kim
  • Korean Name : 김언희
  • ISNI : -
  • Works : 1
No. Call No. Location Status Due Date Reservation
1 영어 811 김언희 요-Kim LTI Korea Library Available - -
Descriptions
  • English(English)

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Translated from Korean by Sung Gi Kim and Eunsong Kim.  These deft, nuanced, and unmannered translations of Kim Eon Hee's poems introduce a genuinely exciting poet to the English-speaking world, one whose work reveals for us the limitations of our conceptions of what poetry is and the colonial legacies that structure our basic concepts of poetry, such as the gendered and raced expectations of the poetic speaker and of what counts as "experimental" writing. Kim's poetry, as the translators write, is "unafraid of graphic disappointment or the pits": she brilliantly violates our idea of what is acceptable for an Asian female poet to say out loud.

"The backdrop to Kim's playful 'absurdist' poetry is the neoliberal and neocolonial context of contemporary South Korea and its relationship to the United States, the two countries in the Kims' words, 'economic and political collaborators.' They rightly describe Kim Eon Hee's poetry as 'an unexpectedly politicized space,' as, equally so, are their translations—and, indeed, all poetry and all translations."—Dorothy Wang

In Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days? Kim Eon Hee writes compellingly against the grain of neocolonialist, neoliberal K-culture, producing a poetry that grapples towards weakness, the Korean undercommons, language's and life's true, failed becoming-in-the-world. Mirroring Kim's practice, Sung Gi Kim and Eunsong Kim brilliantly record their own anxiety and impasse as and in translation, in the introduction and the body of the poems themselves: the result is a resonant and clarifying "semblance of feeling...we can witness only outside of language.” --John Keene 

 

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