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Glory Hole

By Kim Hyun
Series: The Pride List
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Glory Hole is a pioneering collection of queer poetry by renowned Korean poet Kim Hyun. It features fifty-one unconventional poems spotlighting diverse voices such as gay teens, elders, cats, caterpillars, and robots. These poems explore themes of love, desire, abandonment, destitution, and death, blending dystopian sci-fi with pornography, storytelling with poetry, and mixing fictive with real elements. The style challenges traditional sense-making through incoherent tense, unidiomatic expressions, and endless puns, reflecting the turbulent lives of LGBTQ+ individuals in Korea.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary poetry, queer literature, and Korean culture. Especially suited to those seeking challenging and innovative poetic forms exploring LGBTQ+ themes.

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A ground-breaking new collection of queer poetry from a leading contemporary Korean poet.

Glory Hole by Kim Hyun is the first Korean queer poetry collection. Featuring gay teens, elders, cats, caterpillars, robots, and other unexpected characters, Kim’s fifty-one eccentric poems trace themes of love, sexual desire, abandonment, destitution, and death.

In recounting the splendid yet tragic journeys of his speakers, Kim defies meaningful sense-making. His poems are a mishmash of dystopian sci-fi and pornography, storytelling and poetry, fictive references, and real figures. They are not embellished with elegant imagery; in fact, they are antithetical to it, opting instead for incoherent tense, unidiomatic expressions, and never-ending puns. After all, like LGBTQ+ people in many cultures, Korean queers live in this site of violence. Bewilderment, deliberately, is Kim Hyun’s form.

Glory Hole invites readers into a very queer world.

Series: The Pride List

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Praised for its singular creative mastery, the translations maintain the richness of the original Korean text, inviting readers into the subversive and impenetrable aspects of queer life. The collection has been described as a vibrantly colorful transcription of the strangeness of the world and queer experience.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780857429872

Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 May 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd

Contributors:

  • Translated by Suhyun J. Ahn
  • Translated by Archana Madhavan

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 159.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 264

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Kim Hyun LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction Poetry Series: The Pride List

About the Author

South Korean author Kim Hyun has published four volumes of poems and six essay collections, and he has co-authored several queer novels and anthologies. Suhyun J. Ahn is a PhD candidate studying East Asian philosophy and politics. By day, Archana Madhavan is a technical writer helping people to make data-driven decisions. By night, she is a fitful writer and a budding translator of Korean literature and comics.

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