Glory hole / Kim Hyun ; translated by Suhyun J. Ahn and Archana Madhavan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Hyŏn, 1980- author.

Contributor:

Ahn, Suhyun J., translator.

Madhavan, Archana, translator.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Pride list (Series)

The pride list

Standardized Title:

Kŭllori hol. English

Language:

English

Korean

Subjects (All):

Sexual minorities--Poetry.

Sexual minorities.

Korean poetry--21st century.

Korean poetry.

Kim, Hyŏn, 1980---Translations into English.

Kim, Hyŏn.

LGBTQ+ people.

Genre:

Poetry.

Translations.

LGBTQ+ poetry

Physical Description:

xi, 186 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Seagull Books, 2022.

Language Note:

Translated from the Korean.

Summary:

"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."--Amazon.com.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Inhumane

What Do Angels Do at Silent and Holy Night;

Lone Wood's Retirement Party

Galaxy Express 999

Rewind

Queer; a Story That Is Always Told

A Meeting with the Writer

With the Dead Ones

Write the Novel, the Novel; "Please Find My Shoes. They're Sandals, Blue Sandals" / Madame Novel Cabbage

Nine Years on Jupiter

Blow Job

A Tribute to a Replicant about Which Gary Mumbled

Greengrass Disappeared

A World History of Midwives

Cobweb Carpet

Eyes and Ears, Look for Vanished Words

Mr. Withers of Withering Woods

When They Were High on Drugs

Nightswimming

Real Boy

Long-Tailed Darlin

Big Animal

A Cathedral

Sirius Somewhere

Dear Old Miss Lonelyhearts of "Dear Old Miss Lonelyhearts"

Old Baby Homo

Death

Dylan

What Do Angels Do on Silent and Holy Nights;

Tale of the Qishi Girl

Ashes of Time

S

An Illustration of Time by the Merry Pranksters

Write the Novel, the Novel; Those Days

First of the Gang to Die

The Last Blotch

Polonaise

(cont.)

The Future

Regarding Cate Blanchett's Dream

Border

The Last Person on Space Ferris Wheel No. 12

Write the Novel, the Novel; in the Final Days of the Novel, Blake With the Blue Gloves

The Tale of Cho

Mansion

Susan Boreman's Retirement Party

Sad Vagina

A Mechanic of the Night

Montgomery Gift

Earth

Commentary

The Real Queer Sci-fi-Metafiction Theater: A Handbook to Glory Hole.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780857429872

0857429876

OCLC:

1308481168

Publisher Number:

99991620226