{"product_id":"kim-eon-hee-tr-eunsong-kim-sung-gi-kim-have-you-b","title":"Kim, Eon Hee: Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days?","description":"\u003cp\u003eNoemi Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Eunsong Kim \u0026amp; Sung Gi Kim\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: May 1, 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese deft, nuanced, and unmannered translations of Kim Eon Hee's poems introduce a genuinely exciting poet to the English-speaking world, one whose work reveals for us the limitations of our conceptions of what poetry is and the colonial legacies that structure our basic concepts of poetry, such as the gendered and raced expectations of the poetic speaker and of what counts as \"experimental\" writing. Kim's poetry, as the translators write, is \"unafraid of graphic disappointment or the pits\": she brilliantly violates our idea of what is acceptable for an Asian female poet to say out loud.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKim Eon Hee was born in 1953 in Jinju, Gyeongsang Province. She is the author of five volumes of poetry. Her first collection \u003cem\u003eModern Ars Poetica\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 1989. Followed by, \u003cem\u003eTrunk, The Girl who Sleeps Under a Withering Cherry Tree, Unexpected Response,\u003c\/em\u003e and her latest from 2016 \u003cem\u003eThe Man I Miss\u003c\/em\u003e. First published in 2011,\u003cem\u003e Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days?\u003c\/em\u003e, is her fourth poetry collection, and the first of her books' to be translated into English.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817266294807,"sku":"9781934819814","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/9781934819814ita_805x_d69c02e9-c2f6-4353-9582-7c0efb4ddc4f.jpg?v=1776026418","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/kim-eon-hee-tr-eunsong-kim-sung-gi-kim-have-you-b","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}