Her poems beautifully lift the voices of these women, helping to make them heard and remembered - while also providing insight into current events, environmentalism, and her own personal experiences as a woman in the world.ĭuring her interview, Emily Jungmin Yoon recommends Autobiography of Death (New Directions Books, 2018), written by Kim Hyesoon and translated by Don Mee Choi, and Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016) by Choi.Īndrea Blythe is a co-host of the New Books in Poetry podcast. At its core these poems delves into the lives of Korean comfort women of the 1930s and 40s, reflecting on not only the history of sexual slavery, but also considering its ongoing impact. In her first full-length collection, A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco Books, 2018), Emily Jungmin Yoon examines forms of violence against women.
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