Winged ventriloquy-a powerful new poetry collection channeling the language of birds by South Korea's most innovative contemporary writer
Kim Hyesoon Book order
Kim Hyesoon is one of South Korea’s most significant contemporary poets, striving for a freedom from form in her work. She experiments with language, focusing on the sensual—often female—body, directly opposing male-dominated lyrical poetry. Her poems are direct, deliberately grotesque, theatrical, unsettling, and visceral, employing playful linguistics to subvert traditional roles for women. Her writing is characterized as feminist surrealism.
- 2023
- 2018
Autobiography of Death
- 128 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Kim Hyesoon's poems "create a seething, imaginative under-and over-world where myth and politics, the everyday and the fabulous, bleed into each other" (Sean O'Brien, The Independent)
- 2015
Renshi is a modern version of the traditional Japanese linked poem, Renku. As the 70th anniversary for the end of the World War II approaches and the politicians prepare for their 'historic speeches' to be delivered on August 15, 2015, 4 poets from Japan, China and Korea decide to have a Trilingual Renshi session, linking themselves to each other through translation and e-mails. The result is a mandala of 36 poems with the shared themes of 'Sea', 'Rice', and 'Sun'. It is at once the celebration of humanity which transcends nation, race, and even language, and the poetic action for the "resistance against the world's entropy."
- 2015
This title features a hidden object on each page within the picture. Children will develop observation, logical thinking and reasoning skills by interacting with the story. Joy Cowley pays close attention to vocabulary, line breaks and the flow of text to make these stories simpler and easier to read.
- 2014
I'm Ok, I'm Pig!
- 160 pages
- 6 hours of reading
First British edition of leading South Korean poet known for her innovative experimental feminist poetry.