Kim Hyun
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Kim Hyun,Β πππ°π³πΊ ππ°ππ¦Β (Translated from the Korean by Suhyun J. Ahn and Archana Madhavan)
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Featuring gay teens, elders, cats, caterpillars, robots, and other unexpected characters, Kimβs 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 Hyunβs form.Β All the "notes" are the author's own, even when attributed to others.Β πππ°π³πΊ ππ°ππ¦Β invites readers into a very queer world.Β
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South Korean authorΒ Kim HyunΒ debuted as a poet in 2009 when his five poems including βBlow Jobβ were featured in the quarterlyΒ ππ’π¬π¬π’ ππ¦π¨πΊπ¦. Since then, Kim has published several poetry and essay collections. He has also co-authored a feminist novel collectionΒ ππͺπ΄πͺπ΅π°π³π΄ π’π΅ ππ’πΈπ―, a queer novel collection ππͺπ§π¦ ππ΄ πππΈπ’πΊπ΄ π°π― π΅π©π¦ ππ³πͺπ―π¬ π°π§ ππ°πππ’π±π΄πͺπ―π¨, and the young adult queer anthology,Β ππ° ππ¦ ππ°π·π¦.Β Kim has received the Shin Dong-yup Prize for Literature and Kim Jun-seong Literary Award.
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