Glory Hole
BOOK DETAILS
Price: $40.95
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780857429872
Published: May 2022
This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.
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.
Book details and technical specifications
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780857429872
Published: May 2022
Number of pages: 264
Width: 159 mm
Height: 229 mm
Depth: not specified
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd