Description
Product ID: | 9780857429872 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | The Pride List |
Title: | Glory Hole |
Authors: | Author: Kim Hyun, Suhyun J. Ahn, Archana Madhavan |
Page Count: | 264 |
Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Gay & Lesbian studies |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
Imprint Name: | Seagull Books London Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Seagull Books London Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-05-20 |