Grotesque Weather and Good People by Lim, Solah
Grotesque Weather and Good People by Lim, Solah

Grotesque Weather and Good People

A debut English translation of contemporary free verse poetry by an award-winning South Korean poet and novelist.By...
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Author: Solah Lim
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Grotesque Weather and Good People by Lim, Solah

Grotesque Weather and Good People

$32.19
Grotesque Weather and Good People by Lim, Solah

Grotesque Weather and Good People

$32.19
Author: Solah Lim
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
A debut English translation of contemporary free verse poetry by an award-winning South Korean poet and novelist.


By turns humorous and dark, these poems explore the simultaneous intimacy and alienation of everyday life in urban Seoul. Writing in a simple vernacular, Lim Solah's lyric I struggles with the poet's call to "wonder" in a world lurking with quiet dissonance and horror.
Many of these poems incorporate elements of drama and fiction, including documentary, collapsing the boundaries between the imaginary and the real as they explore the writer's relationship with multitudinous versions of her many selves.


While BTS light up the charts and Korean films gather international awards, Lim's poems paint a strange and disorienting map of the consciousness of the so-called "spec" generation that calls their country Hell Chosun. This is a voice on fire from a world on fire. Readers from Seoul to Seattle to Slovenia to Singapore will find it familiar. Since that world is also the one in which we all live.


Curated by Jake Levine, the Moon Country Korean Poetry Series publishes new English translations of contemporary Korean poetry by both mid-career and up-and-coming poets who debuted after the IMF crisis. By introducing work that comes out of our shared milieu, this series not only aims to widen the field of contemporary Korean poetry available in English translation, but also to challenge orientalist, neo-colonial, and national literature discourses. Our hope is that readers will inhabit these books as bodies of experience rather than view them as objects of knowledge, that they will allow themselves to be altered by them, and emerge from the page with eyes that seem to see "a world that belongs to another star."



Author: Solah Lim
Publisher: Black Ocean
Published: 06/21/2022
Pages: 150
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.32h x 5.83w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9781939568434

About the Author
Lim, Solah: - Lim Solah is a writer from South Korea. She is the author of the novel The Best Life (Munhakdongnae 2015), the poetry collection Get Packing (Hyeondaemunhak 2020), and the short story collection Snow, Person and Snowperson (Munhakdongnae 2019). She is the recipient of numerous awards such as the JoongAng New Writer's Award for Poetry, Sin Dong-yup Prize for Literature, and the Moonji Literary Award. Lim received the Arts Council Korea's Young Art Frontier Grant in 2014.Munson, Olan: - Olan Munson is a freelance translator and graduate of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. Munson is a PhD student in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan.Eunkyung, Oh: - Oh Eunkyung is a freelance translator and graduate of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. Based in Germany, Oh works to introduce contemporary Korean writers to an international readership.
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