Disease Quote by Kim Hyesoon

“In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs.”

Kim Hyesoon

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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…

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Alienation between the content and form happens frequently in my poems because I obstinately carry on dismantling my body, an act you can also…

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We have certain rules for traditional lyric poetry in Korea. I twist my body, confused by what to say and how to act, facing…

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In Korea, a woman must first obey her father, then her husband when she becomes an ajuma, and finally obey her son as a…

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Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.…

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When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written anywhere, but…

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When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry.

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South Korea is one of the worst countries when it comes to opportunity for women in social activities and employment. To my disgust, in…

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The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images I use…

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