Phantom Pain Wings
Hyesoon Kim
Belletristik / Lyrik
Beschreibung
2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (USA) Kim Hyesoon here shapeshifts into birds as she explores trauma, grief and parting. Kim mixes folklore and mythology with contemporary psychodramatic realities as she taps into a cremation ceremony, Rimbaud, Agnès Varda, Francis Bacon's portrait of Pope Innocent X, cyclones and more.
Kundenbewertungen
physical, metamorphosis, PN Review, family, loss, remembering, violence, folklore, childhood, Action Books, New Directions, Rimbaud, mythology, objects, childhood innocence, bodies, Francis Bacon, shamanism, poetry, South Korea, Ingeborg Bachmann, animal, Modern Poetry in Translation, Yi Sang, historical memory, legacies, modernist, shapeshifting, war trauma, grief, Bloodaxe Books, ventriloquy, frailty, 20th-century European history, gender, bird, Agnes Varda