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당신의 첫

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! Updated: 2024-12-19

  • Posted by Moonji Publishing co., Ltd. on 2024-12-19
  • Updated by on 2025-06-04

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Description 작품 소개

Your First is a record of a divided consciousness. Throughout the collection, we see evidences of a self moaning and struggling against itself, as in the case in “Starfish,” where the speaker says, “I leave my starfish in the Pacific Ocean / my cuckoo in Tibet / my sloth in the forest of the Amazon / and I cookand lecture and age like this…” The speaker in “Onion” despairs: “Now that I’m peeled back like an onion, I am no more / but where was I hiding—I who used to call me I…” And then with the words “I must really go kill myself again,” the desire for rebirth and renewal is kindled. However, it is not only the fractured self that speaks in this collection. The different multiple selves expand infinitely to the point that they take over the whole world and converge into one person and one body, meaning that all things begin in the poet’s imagination without regard to distinction. KIM Hye-Soon states in her essay “In the Oxymoronic World,” “The confusion of the multiple ‘I’ is what makes me write poetry.” In KIM Hye-Soon’s poetry, death and birth are intimately linked and even interchangeable, for their beginnings cannot be traced. The critic Lee Kwang-Ho mentions in the afterword, “The name KIM Hye-Soon is a type of poetry, and the poetry of KIM Hye-Soon is a type of republic.” He also added, “Contemporary women poets are citizens of the republic of KIM Hye-Soon, and the discourse of young poets of the new millennium has a close correlation with the poetry of KIM Hye-Soon.”

KIM Hye-Soon

Born in 1955, in Uljin, Gyeongsangbuk-do. KIM’s poetry played a critical role in the poetry of the 1980s, as well as in feminist literary research and publication. She continues to be one of the most important contemporary poets of South Korea. She has received numerous prestigious poetry awards and is the first woman to receive the coveted Midang literary award for her poem “Sand Woman”. This poem, which retraces the female life through a woman’s mummy, has also been included in the collection

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Kim Hyesoon김혜순

Kim Hyesoon(b. 1955) is one of the most prominent and influential contemporary poets of South Korea. She was the first woman poet to receive the prestigious Kim Su-yong and Midang awards, and her works have been translated into English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Swedish. Her translated English works include: When the Plug Gets Unplugged (Tinfish, 2005), Anxiety of Words (Zephyr, 2006), Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers (Action Books, 2008), All the Garbage of the World, Unite! (Action Books, 2011), Princess Abandoned (Tinfish, 2012), Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream (Action Books, 2014), I’m OK, I’m Pig! (Bloodaxe Books, 2014), Trilingual Rensi (Vagabond Press, 2015), Poor Love Machine (Action Books, 2016), Autobiography of Death (New Directions, 2018), and A Drink of Red Mirror (Action Books, 2019). Kim lives in Seoul and teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Kim, along with her long-time translator, Don Mee Choi, recently received the International Griffin Poetry Prize, Canada’s most prestigious poetry award, for Autobiography of Death (New Directions, 2019).

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