Notes from the Divided Country: Poems

Notes from the Divided Country: PoemsIn her first collection, Suji Kwock Kim confronts a number of difficult subjects colonialism, the Korean War, emigration, racism, and love. She considers what a homeland would be for a divided nation and a divided self: what it means to enter language, the body, the family, the community; to be a daughter, sister, lover, citizen, or exile. In settings from New York to San Francisco, from Scotland to Seoul, her poems question "what threads hold our

In her first collection, Suji Kwock Kim confronts a number of difficult subjects--colonialism, the Korean War, emigration, racism, and love. She considers what a homeland would be for a divided nation and a divided self: what it means to enter language, the body, the family, the community; to be a daughter, sister, lover, citizen, or exile.

In settings from New York to San Francisco, from Scotland to Seoul, her poems question "what threads hold / our lives together" in cities and gardens, battlefields and small towns. Across the no-man's-land between every "you" and "I," her speakers encounter, quarrel with, or honor others, traveling between the living and the dead, between horror over the disastrous events of the past and hope for the future. Drawing upon a wide range of voices, styles, and perspectives, Notes from the Divided Country bears witness to the vanishing world.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 04/01/2003
ISBN: 9780807128732
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.00w x 0.28d
Award: Walt Whitman Award - Winner

Review Citations: Booklist 03/01/2003 pg. 1141
Publishers Weekly 04/21/2003 pg. 58
Library Journal 05/15/2003 pg. 94
Multicultural Review 12/01/2003 pg. 57