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Hysteria
Kim Yideum
Translated from Korean by Hedgie Choi, Soeun Seo
Hysteria, by Kim Yideum and translated by Hedgie Choi, Soeun Seo from Korean, brings Korean-language poetry connected to Korea, Republic of into English through Korean extremity, bodily speech, and a title that announces emotion as a charged state rather than a diagnosis. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for hysteria, body, excess, and the unruly theatre of feeling made public, not as a fixed lesson about Korea, Republic of. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Hysteria belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives contemporary Korean poetry a fierce register of feminist intensity and surreal pressure.
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Action Books
- Language
- Korean
- Country
- Korea, Republic of
- ISBN
- 9780900575822