Kim Hyesoon
Kim Hyesoon | |
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![]() Kim Hyesoon in Frankfurt (2019). | |
Born | Uljin County, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea |
Occupation | Poet, professor |
Nationality | South Korean |
Genre | Poetry |
Literary movement | Feminism |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 김혜순 |
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Hanja | 金惠順 |
Revised Romanization | Gim Hyesun |
McCune–Reischauer | Kim Hye-sun |
Kim Hyesoon[1] (Korean: 김혜순) is a South Korean poet. She was the first woman poet to receive the Kim Su-yeong Literature Award, Midang Literary Award, Contemporary Poetry Award, and Daesan Literary Awards. She has also received the Griffin Poetry Prize (2019), the Cikada Prize, the Samsung Ho-Am Prize in the Arts (2022), U.K Royal Society of Literature International writer (2022), and National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. She is the first foreign poet laureate who won the award
Life
Kim Hyesoon was born in Uljin County, North Gyeongsang Province. She was raised by her grandmother and had tuberculous pleurisy as a child.[2] She received her Ph.D. in Korean literature from Konkuk University[3] and began her career as a poet in 1979 with the publication of the poem "Dead body Smoking a Cigarette" along with four other of her poems in the literary magazine Literature and Intellect (Munhak-kwa Jiseong).[4] Kim Hyesoon is Poet, essayist, and critic. She is one of the most prominent and influential contemporary poets of South Korea. She has published fourteen poetry books and four books on poetics. Kim is an most important contemporary poet in South Korea, and she lives in Seoul and teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Kim was in the forefront of women published in Literature and Intellect.[5][6]
Work
Kim started to receive critical acclaim in the 1990s. Her own belief is that her work was recognized at that time in no small part because the 1990s in South Korea were noted for a generally strong wave of women poets and women's poetry.
Kim is the recipient of multiple literary prizes including the Kim Su-yeong Literature Award (1996) for her poem "A Poor Love Machine", the Sowol Poetry Prize (2000), and the Midang Literary Award (2006), which are named after three renowned contemporary Korean poets. Kim was the first woman poet to receive the Kim Su-yeong Literature Award, Midang Literary Award, Contemporary Poetry Award, and Daesan Literary Award.[7] More recently she has also received the Lee Hyoung-Gi Literary Award (2019), the Griffin Poetry Prize (2019),[8] the Cikada Prize, the Samsung Ho-Am Prize in the Arts (2022), U.K Royal Society of Literature International writer (2022), and National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2023, she is the first foreign poet laureate who won the award).[9]
Kim Hyesoon was named the T.S. Eliot Memorial Reader at Harvard University Library (2023).[10]
Her poetry collecton Phantompain Wings was named poetry book of the year(2023) by the New York Times and Washington Post, The Poetry Society(U.K),[11] among others.[12]
Her poems have been translated into many languages (Swedish, French, German, Polish, Persian, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Danish, etc).
Kim's profile appeared in The New Yorker,[13] and her poems have appeared in The New York Times,[14] Guernica,[15] The Paris Review, The Nation,[16] The Poetry Foundation,[17] The Boston Review,[18] The European Review[19] poetryinternationalweb,[20] and Tricycle.[21]
Kim's poetry collections include: From another star (1981), Father's scarecrow (1985), The Hell of a certain star (1987), Our negative picture (1991), My Upanishad, Seoul (1994), A Poor Love Machine (1997), To the Calendar Factory Manager (2000), A Glass of Red Mirror (2004), Your First (2008), Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream (2011), Blossom, Pig (2016), Autobiography of Death (2016), and Wing Phantom Pain (2019). After Earth Dies, who will Moon Orbit?(2022).
Kim has participated in readings at poetry festivals all over the world.
Kim Hyesoon's poetry was used for Jenny Holzer's exhibit at the Korean National Museum of Modern contemporary Art.[22]
Kim's skill as a writer resides in her facility at combining poetic images with experimental language while simultaneously grounding her work in ‘feminine writing’ drawn from female experiences. Her language is violent and linguistically agile, appropriate for her topics which often center on death and/or injustice. A landmark feminist poet and critic in her native South Korea, Kim Hyesoon's surreal, dagger-sharp poetry has spread from hemisphere to hemisphere in the past ten years, her works translated to Chinese, Swedish, English, French, German, Dutch, Danish and beyond. Kim Hyesoon raises a glass to the reader in the form of a series of riddles, poems conjuring the you inside the me, the night inside the day, the outside inside the inside, the ocean inside the tear. Kim's radical, paradoxical intimacies entail sites of pain as well as wonder, opening onto impossible—which is to say, visionary—vistas. Again and again, in these poems as across her career, Kim unlocks a horizon inside the vanishing point.
The birdlike Kim weaves a pattern of poems, so strangely compelling and curious, and utterly unlike anything I had heard before. —Sasha Dugdale
[23][circular reference]
Works in English
- Phantom Pain Wings New Directions Publishing, translated by Don Mee Choi ISBN 978-0811231718[24]
- A Drink of Red Mirror Action Books ISBN 978-0900575808
- The Autobiography of Death New Directions Publishing, translated by Don Mee Choi ISBN 978-0811227346 (the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize)
- Poor Love Machine Action Books ISBN 978-0-900575-75-4
- I'm O.K, I'm Pig Bloodaxe Books ISBN 978-1-78037-102-3
- Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream Action Books ISBN 978-0-9898048-1-3
- Mommy Must be a Fountain of Feathers Action Books ISBN 0979975514
- Anxiety of Words (Collection with other authors) Zephyr Press ISBN 0939010879
- All the Garbage of the World, Unite! Action Books ISBN 0983148015
- When the Plug Gets Unplugged
- Princess Abandoned (essays), (Tinfish, 2012)
- Trilingual Renshi Vagabond Press ISBN 978-1-922181-44-2
Added to The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing (&NOW Books, 2013)[25]
Works in Korean
- From Another Star, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul, 1981
- Father's Scarecrow, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul, 1985
- The Hell of a Certain Star, Ch’ŏngha Seoul, 1988. Reprinted by Munhakdongnae, 1997
- Our Negative Picture, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul, 1991
- My Upanishad, Seoul, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul, 1994
- A Poor Love Machine, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul, 1997
- To the Calendar Factory Manager, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul, 2000
- A Glass of Red Mirror, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul, 2004
- Your First, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul, 2008
- Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul 2011
- Blossom, Pig, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul 2016
- The Autobiography of Death, Munhaksilheomsil, Seoul 2016
- Phantom Pain of wings, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul 2019
- After Earth Dies, who will Moon Orbit?, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul 2022[26]
Essays
- To Write as a Woman: Lover, Patient, Poet, and You (Seoul: Munhakdongnae, 2002) - Essay on Poetry
- Thus Spoke No (Proems) (Seoul: Munhakdongane, 2016)
- Women, Do Poetry (Seoul: Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, 2017)
- Do Womananimalasia (Seoul: Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, 2019)
- Kim Hyesoon's Words (Seoul: Maumsanchaek, 2023, Interview Book)
Interview
Williams, Ruth (2010). ""Female Poet" as Revolutionary Grotesque: Feminist Transgression in the Poetry of Ch'oe Sŭng-ja, Kim Hyesoon, and Yi Yŏn-ju". Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 29 (2): 395–415. doi:10.1353/tsw.2010.a461384. JSTOR 41337285. S2CID 161895782. https://www.kln.or.kr/frames/interviewsView.do?bbsIdx=387
Awards
- Kim Suyeong Literary Award (1997)
- Sowol Poetry Award (2000)
- Contemporary Poetry Award (2000)
- Korea Culture and Arts Foundation 'This Year's' Art Prize (2004)
- Midang Literature Award (2006)
- Daesan Literature Award (2008)[27]
- Lee Hyoung-Gi Literary Award (2019)
- Korea Culture & Art Prize (2019)
- Griffin Poetry Prize (2019)[28]
- Cikada Prize (2021, Sweden)[29]
- Ho-Am Prize in the Arts (2022)[30]
- U.K. Royal Society of Literature International writer (2022)[31][32]
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2023)[9][33]
See also
References
- ^ "김혜순 | Kim Hyesoon". kimhyesoon (in Korean). Retrieved 2022-07-19.
- ^ Williams, Ruth (1 January 2012). "Kim Hyesoon: The Female Grotesque". Guernica.
- ^ "The Arts/Kim Hyesoon 2022 Laureates - HOAM". www.hoamfoundation.org. Retrieved 2022-07-19.
- ^ "문학과 지성사".
- ^ "Kim Hyesoon". Modern Poetry in Translation. Retrieved 2022-07-19.
- ^ "Kim Hyesoon". www.poetryinternational.com (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-07-19.
- ^ "Kim Hyesoon". Poetry Foundation. 2022-07-19. Retrieved 2022-07-19.
- ^ "kim hyesoon Griffin poetry prize prize".
- ^ a b Alter, Alexandra; Harris, Elizabeth A. (2024-03-22). "Lorrie Moore Is Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
- ^ "Harvard, T.S Eliot Memorial Reading".
- ^ https://poetrysociety.org.uk/news/The poetry-society of England-books-of-the-year-2023/
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/books/review/best-poetry-books-2023.html, https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/11/15/best-poetry/
- ^ "kim hyesoon's animal obsession".
- ^ "Kim Hyesoon - Going Going Gone". New York Times. 21 April 2022.
- ^ "Celebrating kim hyesoon". Guernica. 6 July 2023.
- ^ Hyesoon, Kim (June 2021). "kim hyeoon adeverbs fly". The Nation.
- ^ "A kim hyesoon flio". Poetry Foundation. 4 August 2023.
- ^ "kim hyesoon Smell of Wings". Boston Review.
- ^ "Kim Hyesoon Sugar mouse". European Review.
- ^ "poetryy international Rotterdam".
- ^ Sheffield, Mike (2023-11-11). "Korean Zen". Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
- ^ "Jenny Holzer <For You>". Jenny Holzer <For You>. 15 December 2019.
- ^ "Poet Sasha Dugdale".
- ^ "Poet Kim Hye-soon's 'Phantom Pain Wings' published in English". The Korea Times. 2023-05-04. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
- ^ Schneiderman, Davis (2012). The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing. &NOW Books. ISBN 978-0982315644.
- ^ Kim, E. Tammy (2023-07-14). "Kim Hyesoon's Animal Obsessions". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
- ^ "The Daesan Foundation".
- ^ "Autobiography of Death by Don Mee Choi, translated from the Korean written by Kim Hyesoon and Quarrels by Eve Joseph Win the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize". Griffin Poetry Prize. 2019-06-06. Archived from the original on 2020-02-21.
- ^ "kim hyesoon Cikada Prize".
- ^ 이인준 (31 May 2022). "32회 삼성호암상…오용근 포스텍 교수 등 6인 수상". Newsis (in Korean). Retrieved 3 June 2022.
- ^ "Royal Society of Literature 2022 International Writers".
- ^ "RSL International Writers". Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
- ^ "NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES WINNERS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2023". National Book Critics Circle. 2024-03-22. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
External links
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- Tarpaulin Sky Press: Kim Hyesoon’s A Drink of Red Mirror
- Korean Literature Now: A Note on Kim Hyesoon's Autobiography of Death
- Korean Literature Now: A Singularity. Kim Hyesoon
- rain taxi: Autobiography of Death
- The Poetry Society: Book Review: Midnight Sun
- Tarpaulin Sky Press: Kim Hyesoon, A Drink of Red Mirror
- The Oprah Magazine: 17 of the Best Poetry Books, as Recommended by Acclaimed Writers for National Poetry Month
- Three Percent: The 2019 Best Translated Book Award Longlists
- Secret Feminist Agenda: episode 3.23 Pain
- Kenyon review: March 2019 Micro Reviews
- Rumpus: Painful Celebrations: Five Books for National Poetry Monty
- Yellow Rabbits: 63 A Drink of Red Mirror by Kim Hyesoon
- A Medium Corporation: The Home inside the Body: Real Chaos Astrology vol.13
- International Examiner: Autobiography of Death: Forty-Nine Poems to Guide You to the Afterlife
- HTMLGIANT / Kim Hyesoon
- Forty-nine days of the spirit: Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon roughghosts.com
- "I Refuse to Review": Literary Criticism and Kim Hyesoon's Autobiography of Death Ploughshares at Emerson College
- Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon Galatea Resurrects 2018
- Autobiography of Death The Arkansas International
- Four Poems from Kim Hyesoon's 'Autobiography of Death' Cordite Poetry Review
- Review of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry as well as the poetry written by her translator Don Mee Choi.
- The Salt Dress inside Me Hong Kong Review of Books
- Autobiography of Death Publishers Weekly
- Poor Love Machine Publishers Weekly
- Souvenirs du Livre des morts tibétain En Attendant Nadeau
- The Toxic & the Lyric II: Hearing and Hell; Inversion as Subversion; Everyone, or, the Dead; the Child-Migrant Fanzine
- The Politics of Translation, Part 1 Center for the Art of Translation
- Poet and Pig[usurped] The Oxonian Review
- Poor Love Machine Angel City Review
- The Vanishing Point: Writers Speak to Kim Hyesoon’s Poetry in Translation Asian American Writer's Workshop
- What's New in Translation? June 2016 Asymptote
- Kim Hyesoon's Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream" reviewed by Lisa A. Flowers Tarpaulin Sky Press
- Out of Unison: An AfFormation Ephemera Dance Company
- Et la vie même se retourne comme un gant, nous dit Kim Hyesoon Mediapart
- Unleashing Her Tongue: Poor Love Machine by Kim Hyesoon Korean Literature Now
- Kim Hyesoon - Goodness, I didn't Know there were Such Repulsive Holes! Zoran Rosko Vacuum Cleaner
- Ch'oe Sŭng-ja, Kim Hyesoon, and Yi Yŏn-ju, Anxiety of Words: Contemporary Poetry by Korean Women, Zephyr Press, 2006 Diagram 15.5
- HTMLGIANT / 25 Points: All the Garbage of the World Unite! HTMLGINAT
- Meme is a lone tree that got planted in a bed Jacket 2
- Contagious Poetry Jacket 2
- An Expelled Tongue: Translating Kim Hyesoon Asian American Writer's Workshop
- Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream by Kim Hyesoon Project Muse
- Poetry or Letter To the Other of My Inside-Outside: Poet Kim Hyesoon Archived 2019-03-06 at the Wayback Machine Korean Literature Now
- The Sick World of Kim Hyesoon Hyperallergic
- Mommy must be a Fountain of Feathers by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi Bookslut
- A Feminist Ontology of Ooziness: On Kim Hyesoon The Critical Flame
- All the Garbage of the World Unite! by Kim Hyesoon The Quarterly Conversation
- Eyeful: Kim Hyesoon's Poetics & Poetry Hinging the Spirit's Experience Poetry Foundation
- American Art Need More Holes Vice
- This is the Ek-Static City: Thoughts on Kim Hyesoon's Poetry and Poetics HTMLGIANT
- Interview with Kim Hyesoon in Guernica
- Interview with Kim Hyesoon at KTLIT
- Holey Holey Holey: Reading Kim Hyesoon Southerly Journal
- Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream by Kim Hyesoon The Collagist
- The Gurlesque Deformation Zone: Kim Hyesoon, Maria Margarete Österholm Montevidayo
- Boo Review: All the Garbage of the World, Unite! Alchemy: Journal of Translation
- Toward a Sensationalistic Theory of Translation The Volta
- Three books by Kim Hyesoon, Translated by Don Mee Choi Galatea Resurrects #20
- Poetry round-up: From letters of war to questions of faith and sex Independent
- Even after winning acclaim, poet still struggles with gender, label Yonhap News
- Sorrowtoothpast Mirrocream Today's Book of Poetry by Michael Dennis
- Review: I'm Ok, I'm Pig! by Kim Hyesoon Poetry Wales
- Kim Hyesoon: Som poet lever jag alltid i sorg SVT Nyeheter
- Kim Hyesoon: The Female Grotesque Guernica
- Interview with Poet Kim Hyesoon Korean Literature in Translation
- Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers Archived 2012-02-16 at the Wayback Machine Constant Critic
- Puke Silk: Rihanna and Kim Hyesoon Montevidayo