Yi Won's predecessors of Korean women feminist poets include Kim Hyesoon, who is more than ten years her senior and whose poems have served to protect and strengthen junior women poets since Kim Hyesoon began publishing in 1979. In recent years, worldwide attention has turned to Korean women feminist poetry. Yi Won says, "Korean women poets always wrote poetry with a clear perspective. Feminism has emerged to become more visible through social issues. […] Feminist poets in Korean society provide the imagination of designing the ideal future through language. It makes you dream. Poetic suggestions and poetic smudges can help Korean society to mature." These poetic smudges are important to the language of poetry, especially for Korean women poets. "Korean women poets did not write poetry only in the language of resistance. They wrote poems beyond the limits of feminism." Yi Won is a successor of Korean women poetry. |
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"Electric Lit's Favorite Poetry Collections of 2021"
"Despite its setbacks, this year has been an abundant year in poetry. Throughout 2021, we read lyrical, rhythmic, political work that spoke to our collective horrors, as well as our collective joys. The poets on this list battled at the cross-roads of their internal and external lives."
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What Sparks Poetry:
A Short List of Books Ilya Kaminsky Loved in 2021
"Kevin Young's music can be erotic, it can be surreal, it can be serious, revelatory, or playful, or all of this at once: 'Where the train once rained / through town / like a river, where the water // rose in early summer / & froze come winter— / where the moon // of the outhouse shone / its crescent welcome, / where the heavens opened // & the sun wouldn't quit— / past the gully or gulch / or holler or ditch // I was born.' Stones is a gorgeous book. No one writes like Kevin Young. Frankly, no one can." |
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