Phantom Pain Wings

National Book Critics Circle Awards for Books Published in 2023, Poetry Winner

Hyesoon, Kim 저자(글) · Don Mee Choi 번역

New Directions Publishing Corporation · 2023년 05월 02일

책 소개

Winged ventriloquy―a powerful new poetry collection channeling the language of birds by South Korea’s most innovative contemporary writer

An iconic figure in the emergence of feminist poetry in South Korea and 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 and 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 and existential struggles against power and gendered violence in “the eternal void of grief” (Victoria Chang, The New York Times Magazine). Through intensely rhythmic lines marked by visual puns and words that crash together and then fly away as one, Kim mixes traditional folklore and mythology with contemporary psychodramatic realities as she taps into a cremation ceremony, the legacies of Rimbaud and Yi Sang, a film by Agnes Varda, Francis Bacon’s portrait of Pope Innocent X, cyclones, a princess trapped in a hospital, and more. A simultaneity of voices and identities rises and falls, existing and exiting on their delayed wings of pain.

작가정보

저자(글) Hyesoon, Kim

Kim Hyesoon is the author of several books of poetry and essays. She has received many awards for her poetry, including the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize for Autobiography of Death and the prestigious Samsung Ho-Am Prize in 2022.

번역 Don Mee Choi

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of the National Book Award winning collection DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020), Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016), The Morning News Is Exciting (Action Books, 2010), and several chapbooks and pamphlets of poems and essays. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellowship, Whiting Award, Lannan Literary Fellowship, Lucien Stryk Translation Prize, and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship. She has translated several collections of Kim Hyesoon's poetry, including Autobiography of Death (New Directions, 2018), which received the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize.

목차

• Chapter Page
  My Beloved Parting
  Bird's Poetry Book 11
  Going Going Gone 14
  Double S / Double S 15
  Phantom Pain Wings 18
  Bird's Repetition 21
  Smell of Wings 23
  Glimmer-You Must 25
  Bird Stood as a Question Mark 27
  Floor Is Not a Floor 29
  Grief Guitar (Etcetera) 32
  Farewell First 34
  Girl, Your Body Has So Many Holes for Straws 35
  10 Centimeters 37
  Crow's Eye View 31 39
  Inside-Bird and Outside-Bird 41
  Birds' Funeral 43
  Korean Zen 47
  Double Dog-Eared Page 49
  Regarding Bird's Respiratory Illness 51
  Bird, Scared-Stiff 53
  Tyrannus Melancholicus 54
  I Sharpen the Forest and Write a Letter
  Mailbox 63
  C Is for Conceal 64
  Almost blue 65
  Again, I Need to Ask Poor Yi Sang 67
  Portrait of Fear 70
  Filling Out Customs Forms on the Last Day of the Month 71
  Candle 73
  Monster 74
  Eyetooth 76
  Little Poem 78
  More Tender Heart 80
  Postwoman 81
  Mommy's Expansion 83
  Pre-Ghost 84
  I Don't Want To Live Inside This Novel 85
  Pointed Handwriting 87
  Community of Parting
  The Body of Parting 91
  You Can't Put Your Hands Inside This Box 94
  Fly, Hospital! 96
  Winter Solstice Recipe 98
  Bird Sickness 100
  Is There White Light for Us? 101
  P- P- 103
  Bird's Diary 105
  Shredded Bird 107
  Don't Fly in This Country 109
  Bird Shaman 110
  Isn't That Photo Black and White? 112
  Adverbs, Fly 114
  Jellyfish Are Ninety Percent Water 116
  Why Do Women Think That Animals Can Speak?
  Eternal Bathroom 121
  Vanished Mommy Vanished Kitchen 124
  The Stretcher 126
  Not 128
  Abortion Boat 129
  Red-Bean Handstand 131
  Face That Refuses Anesthesia 134
  A Blizzard Warning 135
  Chorus 137
  I Want to Marry My Grandma 140
  H Is for Hideous 141
  Owl 143
  Bragging About My Dress 145
  Beneath the dark cover of the cart / splendid coffins made of ebony / are swiftly dragged by the strong mares / with shiny dark-blue hair 147
  Autism, 1 148
  Autism, 1000 150
  Straitjacket 152
  Princess Naklang 154
  Woman's Woman 157
  Hypnosis Woman 159
  Bird Rider: An Essay 163
  Translator's Diary 170

기본정보

ISBN	9780811231718 ( 0811231712 )
발행(출시)일자	2023년 05월 02일
쪽수	208쪽
크기	228 * 226 * 15 mm / 272 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어