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110 reviewsWinged ventriloquy—a powerful new poetry collection channeling the language of birds by South Korea's most innovative contemporary writer
This book is about the realization of / I-thought-bird-was-part-of-me-but-Iwas-part-of-bird sequence / It’s a delayed record of such a sequence.
An iconic figure in the emergence of feminist poetry in South Korea & now internationally renowned, Kim Hyesoon pushes the poetic envelope into the farthest reaches of the lyric universe. In her new collection, Kim depicts the memory of war trauma & the collective grief of parting through what she calls an "I-do-bird-sequence," where "Bird-human is the 'I.'" Her remarkable essay "Bird Rider" explains: "I came to write Phantom Pain Wings after Daddy passed away. I called out for birds endlessly. I wanted to become a translator of bird language. Bird language that flies to places I've never been." What unfolds is an epic sequence of bird ventriloquy exploring the relentless physical & existential struggles against power & gendered violence in "the eternal void of grief" (Victoria Chang, The New York Times Magazine).Through intensely rhythmic lines marked by visual puns & words that crash together & then fly away as one, Kim mixes traditional folklore & mythology with contemporary psychodramatic realities as she taps into a cremation ceremony, the legacies of Rimbaud & Yi Sang, a film by Agnès Varda, Francis Bacon’s portrait of Pope Innocent X, cyclones, a princess trapped in a hospital, & more. A simultaneity of voices & identities rises & falls, existing & exiting on their delayed wings of pain.
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Kim Hyesoon is the author of several books of poetry & essays. She has received many awards for her poetry, including the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize for Autobiography of Death & the prestigious Samsung Ho-Am Prize in 2022.
Don Mee Choi is the author of DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020).
