{"product_id":"hell-of-that-star","title":"Hell of That Star","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSingular poetry made through censorship, elusion, and language renewal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe astonishing poetry collection \u003ci\u003eThe Hell of That Star\u003c\/i\u003e enlivens the horror of Korean life under U.S.-backed authoritarianism. Poems of blows and vomit, births and coffins alternate blithe confidence and trembling terror. When slapped seven times by a government censor, Kim responded with defiant poems. The death of language becomes a death of the writer; within death, Kim finds new life in fragmentation and reorientation. This singular volume provides a wild and rigorous study of the words of the nation-state and the self, as well as the deprivations, detainments, and surprises in between. In evading censorship, Kim's poems question, twist, and transmute; language is a site where the personal and political meet to escape containment, emptiness, and domestication. The book includes essays by the author and translator.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[sample poem]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe tough after all\u003cbr\u003ewe still remain\u003cbr\u003eand just in gathering it is lovingly\u003cbr\u003eeven while building each other's tombs\u003cbr\u003ewhile patting each other's backs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when each bird turns around\u003cbr\u003etheir arms flung! open\u003cbr\u003eembracing tightly what\u003cbr\u003ethey do not even recognize as their grave\u003cbr\u003eand they hug and hold harder and harder\u003cbr\u003estretching four limbs out over the laid sleeping mat and blanket\u003cbr\u003esaying I love you I love you even in their sleep\u003cbr\u003eIn this world from which crying birds have disappeared\u003cbr\u003eonly I am left\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cindy Juyoung Ok, Hyesoon Kim, Kim Hyesoon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47477626863852,"sku":"9780819502186","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780819502186.jpg?v=1775532946","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/hell-of-that-star","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}