ISBN: 9781945680151
Editorial: White Pine Press
Autor: Kwon Dobbs, Jennifer
Año de edición: 2018
N° Paginas: 138
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: In Interrogation Room, award-winning poet Jennifer Kwon Dobbs's second collection, poems restore redacted speech and traverse forbidden borders to confront the unending Korean War's divisions of kinship, self, and imagination.Review"Timely" -- The New York Times"Vigorous restlessness" -- World Literature Today"An austere singing" -- 4square review*"Jennifer Kwon Dobbs writes visceral and intelligent poems about an unending war and its many consequences, for Koreans and Americans, for women and children, for orphans and adoptees. Her work is a painful, eloquent reminder about how dividing a country also divides families and selves."--Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Refugees*"The unrestrained human imagination has no DMZs, no 'North/South' borders: In this spirit Jennifer Kwon Dobbs crosses hidden frontiers of the self as she overcomes restricted travel, restricted speech in a divided country. Her un-redacted revelations lead to extraordinary discoveries."--Carol Muske-Dukes, author of Blue Rose*"How to connect to the past, imagined, researched, and lived? This is the question that Jennifer Kwon Dobbs asks in her haunting new book, Interrogation Room. And the answers she offers, in both poetry and prose, in lyrical meditations and stories and erasures, build a bridge to the lost world of her Korean ancestors, where families feed on absence, dreaming of reunification. Her search for her birth mother thus becomes a lament for the lost souls of the divided Korean Peninsula, reminding readers that wherever we come from each of us 'dwells at the border, adopted by all four directions' of the wind. This is our shared homeland."--Christopher Merrill, author of NecessitiesPraise for Jennifer Kwon Dobbs:*"At such moments, deft image, compacted language, and evidence of an intelligent mind moving through tremendous psychic reckoning come together to take full advantage of the book's hybrid form." -- Scout Poetry*"Like a good poet, Dobbs chooses her words with great intention. She wishes to put incomplete information together with missing parts, but she also seeks to suture space, hemming air and emptiness back together; getting at the bodily, suture denotes the medical - stitching and sewing parts of the body to make them whole again." -- VoltaAbout the AuthorJennifer Kwon Dobbs is the award-winning author of Paper Pavilion (White Pine Press Poetry Prize 2007), Interrogation Room (White Pine Press 2018), and the chapbooks Notes from a Missing Person (Essay Press 2015) and the German translated Necro Citizens (forthcoming). Her work appears in Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, Jubilat, Poetry International, and elsewhere. jkwondobbs.comExcerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved." for my mother | Saddleback Church, Lake Forest 2012 Insert children into crates. Unswaddle to receive the singing. Unto Him take the youngest girls into lace aprons, boys into seersucker suits. Take parts the ancestors lick to identify the taste. (Yes―a child easily sheds grammar.) Don’t take to save. Suffer only the innocents among the Fatherless to raise in His image for whomsoever takes the orphan first He shall control past and future.The Origins Inside Kim Dae Shik Manchukuo 1938 | Director of Holt Adoption Agency, Seoul 1979-1981 Scrape the southern regime’s continuous present. There is a forgetting He photographed me draped in a yukata of chrysanthemums enforced by scorched earth raids, a burning cow charging the house yellow sycamore and red oak leaves. It was autumn in Pittsburgh. again, again its pink mouth opening like a fist letting go of time He was an artist; I was a poet.Transracially adopted, we made love such that the image replays in a survivor’s sleep, a Japanese officer’s blueprint inside our Korean names―Kwon Young Mee, Kim Dae Shik. for tactical teams trained in Manchukuo to terrorize the guerillas’ wives We plundered our bodies’ fragrance so exotic were we to each other kidnap their children―ind
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