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Watching Television in a Love Motel
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In this unforgettable first book of poetry by Haro Lee, television—like love—binds us, liberates us, inspires, infuriates, and illuminates us. Watching Television in a Love Motel is a poetic chronicle of Haro’s time in Aotearoa, South Korea, and the United States of America. In four parts—‘Daytime...
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In this unforgettable first book of poetry by Haro Lee, television – like love – binds us, liberates us; inspires, infuriates and illuminates us.
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Description
In this unforgettable first book of poetry by Haro Lee, television—like love—binds us, liberates us, inspires, infuriates, and illuminates us.
Watching Television in a Love Motel is a poetic chronicle of Haro’s time in Aotearoa, South Korea, and the United States of America. In four parts—‘Daytime Television’, ‘Primetime Television’, ‘Late Night Television’, and ‘Graveyard Slot’—she looks at her past, family, and self with the help of the unwavering cultural force that is TV. Big subjects are caught in its glow: God, drugs, love, anti-motherhood, intergenerational trauma, loneliness, failure, and 3am existential anxiety.
The final section is a love letter to a dying neighbourhood in Seoul. Set against the heartache of a rapidly developing nation, this is the story of one girl and her life with a beloved grandmother.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781776923175
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 09 July 2026
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 148.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 120
About the Author
Haro Lee was born in the Year of the Rat in Tāmaki Makaurau. Her work has been published in The Spinoff, Michigan Quarterly Review and Poetry Northwest, among others. Watching Television in a Love Motel is her first book.
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