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Glory Hole Kim Hyun

Glory Hole By Kim Hyun

Glory Hole by Kim Hyun


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Glory Hole by Kim Hyun

A ground-breaking new collection of queer poetry from a leading contemporary Korean poet. Kim Hyun's Glory Hole is the first Korean queer poetry collection. Featuring gay teens, elders, cats, caterpillars, robots, and other unexpected characters, Kim's fifty-one eccentric poems trace themes of love, sexual desire, abandonment, destitution, and death. In recounting the splendid yet tragic journeys of his speakers, Kim defies meaningful sense-making. His poems are a mishmash of dystopian sci-fi and pornography, storytelling and poetry, fictive references, and real figures. They are not embellished with elegant imagery; in fact, they are antithetical to it, opting instead for incoherent tense, unidiomatic expressions, and never-ending puns. After all, like LGBTQ+ people in many cultures, Korean queers live in this site of violence. Bewilderment, deliberately, is Kim Hyun's form. Glory Hole invites readers into a very queer world.

Glory Hole Reviews

As a whole [these poems] showcase a singular creative mastery. With as little interference as possible, the translators facilitated a smooth transition from Korean to English, maintaining the richness of the original. The point and the goal of the pieces that make up Glory Hole is to invite the impenetrable and the subversive into the light. * Foreword *

About Kim Hyun

South Korean author Kim Hyun has published four volumes of poems and six essay collections, and he has co-authored several queer novels and anthologies. Suhyun J. Ahn is a PhD candidate studying East Asian philosophy and politics. By day, Archana Madhavan is a technical writer helping people to make data-driven decisions. By night, she is a fitful writer and a budding translator of Korean literature and comics.

Table of Contents

Foreword Translator's Note Inhumane What Do Angels Do at Silent and Holy Night; Lone Wood's Retirement Party Galaxy Express 999 Rewind Queer; a Story That Is Always Told A Meeting with the Writer With the Dead Ones Write the Novel, the Novel; Please Find My Shoes. They're Sandals, Blue Sandals by Madame Novel Cabbage Nine Years on Jupiter Blow Job A Tribute to a Replicant about Which Gary Mumbled Greengrass Disappeared A World History of Midwives Cobweb Carpet Eyes and Ears, Look for Vanished Words Mr Withers of Withering Woods When They Were High on Drugs Nightswimming Real Boy Long-tailed Darlin Big Animal A Cathedral Sirius Somewhere Dear Old Miss Lonelyhearts* of Dear Old Miss Lonelyhearts Old Baby Homo Death Dylan What Do Angels Do on Silent and Holy Nights; Tale of the Qishi Girl (????) Ashes of Time s An Illustration of Time by the Merry Pranksters Write the Novel, the Novel; Those Days First of the Gang to Die The Last Blotch Polonaise (cont.) THE FUTURE Regarding Cate Blanchett's Dream Border The Last Person on Space Ferris Wheel No. 12 Write the Novel, the Novel; in the Final Days of the Novel, Blake With the Blue Gloves The Tale of Cho Mansion Susan Boreman's Retirement Party What Do Angels Do on Silent and Holy Nights; Sad Vagina A Mechanic of the Night Montgomery Clift Earth

Additional information

GOR013602875
9780857429872
0857429876
Glory Hole by Kim Hyun
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Seagull Books London Ltd
2022-05-20
264
N/A
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