Glory hole /
Kim Hyun's Glory Hole is the first Korean queer poetry collection. Featuring gay teens, elders, cats, caterpillars, robots and other unexpected characters, Kim's fifty-one eccentric poems trace themes of love, sexual desire, abandonment, destitution and death. In recounting the splendid ye...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Korean. |
| Published: |
London ; New York :
Seagull Books,
2022.
|
| Series: | Pride list (Series)
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | Kim Hyun's Glory Hole is the first Korean queer poetry collection. Featuring gay teens, elders, cats, caterpillars, robots and other unexpected characters, Kim's fifty-one eccentric poems trace themes of love, sexual desire, abandonment, destitution and death. In recounting the splendid yet tragic journeys of his speakers, Kim defies meaningful sense-making. His poems are a mishmash of dystopian sci-fi and pornography, storytelling and poetry, fictive references and real figures. They are not embellished with elegant imagery; in fact, they are antithetical to it, opting instead for incoherent tense, unidiomatic expressions and never-ending puns. After all, like LGBTQ+ people in many cultures, Korean queers live in this site of violence. Bewilderment, deliberately, is Kim Hyun's form. Glory Hole invites readers into a very queer world. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | xi, 186 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780857429872 0857429876 |