A cruelty special to our species : poems / Emily Jungmin Yoon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yoon, Emily Jungmin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 67 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : ECCO, [2018]

Summary:

"A piercing debut collection of poems from a sensational new talent exploring gender, race, and violence."--Jacket flap.

"In her arresting collection, urgently relevant for our times, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon confronts the histories of sexual violence against women, focusing in particular on so-called comfort women, Korean women who worked in Japanese-occupied territories during World War II. In wrenching language, "A Cruelty Special to Our Species" unforgettably describes the brutalities of war and the fear and sorrow of those whose lives and bodies were swept up by a colonizing power, amplifying the voices of an oppressed group of people whose histories have often been erased and overlooked. "What is a body in a stolen country?" Yoon asks. "What is right in war?" Moving readers through time, space, and different cultures, and bringing vivid life to the testimonies and confessions of the victims, Yoon takes possession of a painful and shameful history even while unearthing moments of rare beauty in acts of resistance and resilience, and in the instinct to survive and bear witness."--Jacket flap.

Contents:

The Charge (An Ordinary Misfortune

Comfort

An Ordinary Misfortune

Hello Miss Pretty Bitch

An Ordinary Misfortune)

The Testimonies (Testimonies)

The Confessions (Ail Ordinary Misfortune

Fetish

Royal Azalea

Don't Touch Me

Bell Theory

American Dream

Hair

Obeli

My Grandmother Reminisces with Peaches

Autopsy)

The After (An Ordinary Misfortune

Fear

Let Us Part Like This

News

Notes

On the Day of the Gyeongju Earthquake September 12 2016

Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice Today

Foreigner

Sometimes when I'm walking on this street

Easily written poem

Say Grace

To the Winter Apricot Blossom

The Transformation

Dream Devil

Time in Whales).

ISBN:

0062843680

9780062843685

OCLC:

1016928075