Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind,… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
As a university student, I tried hard to write poems in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb. — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
I have to reach "the poetry condition" to write. Then it is as if the border around me is thinned or blurred… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Alienation between the content and form happens frequently in my poems because I obstinately carry on dismantling my body, an act you can also… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures me in… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Korean feminism is on the brink of death. Korea has a less clear boundary between popular literature and serious literature than in other countries.… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
We have certain rules for traditional lyric poetry in Korea. I twist my body, confused by what to say and how to act, facing… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
In Korea, a woman must first obey her father, then her husband when she becomes an ajuma, and finally obey her son as a… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written anywhere, but… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
South Korea is one of the worst countries when it comes to opportunity for women in social activities and employment. To my disgust, in… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images I use… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
