Kim Hyesoon Explained

Kim Hyesoon
Birth Place:Uljin County, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea
Occupation:Poet, professor
Nationality:South Korean
Genre:Poetry
Movement:Feminism
Korean name
Hangul:김혜순
Rr:Gim Hyesun
Mr:Kim Hye-sun

Kim Hyesoon[1] is a South Korean poet. She was the first woman poet to receive the Kim Su-yeong Literature Award, Midang Literary Award, Contemporary Poetry Award, and Daesan Literary Awards. She has also received the Griffin Poetry Prize (2019), the Cikada Prize, the Samsung Ho-Am Prize in the Arts (2022), U.K Royal Society of Literature International writer (2022), and National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. She is the first foreign poet laureate who won the award

Life

Kim Hyesoon was born in Uljin County, North Gyeongsang Province. She was raised by her grandmother and had tuberculous pleurisy as a child.[2] She received her Ph.D. in Korean literature from Konkuk University[3] and began her career as a poet in 1979 with the publication of the poem "Dead body Smoking a Cigarette" along with four other of her poems in the literary magazine Literature and Intellect (Munhak-kwa Jiseong).[4] Kim Hyesoon is Poet, essayist, and critic. She is one of the most prominent and influential contemporary poets of South Korea. She has published fourteen poetry books and four books on poetics. Kim is an most important contemporary poet in South Korea, and she lives in Seoul and teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Kim was in the forefront of women published in Literature and Intellect.[5] [6]

Work

Kim started to receive critical acclaim in the 1990s. Her own belief is that her work was recognized at that time in no small part because the 1990s in South Korea were noted for a generally strong wave of women poets and women's poetry.

Kim is the recipient of multiple literary prizes including the Kim Su-yeong Literature Award (1996) for her poem "A Poor Love Machine", the Sowol Poetry Prize (2000), and the Midang Literary Award (2006), which are named after three renowned contemporary Korean poets. Kim was the first woman poet to receive the Kim Su-yeong Literature Award, Midang Literary Award, Contemporary Poetry Award, and Daesan Literary Award.[7] More recently she has also received the Lee Hyoung-Gi Literary Award (2019), the Griffin Poetry Prize (2019),[8] the Cikada Prize, the Samsung Ho-Am Prize in the Arts (2022), U.K Royal Society of Literature International writer (2022), and National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2023, she is the first foreign poet laureate who won the award).[9]

Kim Hyesoon was named the T.S. Eliot Memorial Reader at Harvard University Library (2023).[10]

Her poetry collecton Phantompain Wings was named poetry book of the year(2023) by the New York Times and Washington Post, The Poetry Society(U.K),[11] among others.[12]

Her poems have been translated into many languages (Swedish, French, German, Polish, Persian, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Danish, etc).

Kim's profile appeared in The New Yorker,[13] and her poems have appeared in The New York Times,[14] Guernica,[15] The Paris Review, The Nation,[16] The Poetry Foundation,[17] The Boston Review,[18] The European Review[19] poetryinternationalweb,[20] and Tricycle.[21]

Kim's poetry collections include: From another star (1981), Father's scarecrow (1985), The Hell of a certain star (1987), Our negative picture (1991), My Upanishad, Seoul (1994), A Poor Love Machine (1997), To the Calendar Factory Manager (2000), A Glass of Red Mirror (2004), Your First (2008), Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream (2011), Blossom, Pig (2016), Autobiography of Death (2016), and Wing Phantom Pain (2019). After Earth Dies, who will Moon Orbit?(2022).

Kim has participated in readings at poetry festivals all over the world.

Kim Hyesoon's poetry was used for Jenny Holzer's exhibit at the Korean National Museum of Modern contemporary Art.[22]

Kim's skill as a writer resides in her facility at combining poetic images with experimental language while simultaneously grounding her work in ‘feminine writing’ drawn from female experiences. Her language is violent and linguistically agile, appropriate for her topics which often center on death and/or injustice. A landmark feminist poet and critic in her native South Korea, Kim Hyesoon's surreal, dagger-sharp poetry has spread from hemisphere to hemisphere in the past ten years, her works translated to Chinese, Swedish, English, French, German, Dutch, Danish and beyond. Kim Hyesoon raises a glass to the reader in the form of a series of riddles, poems conjuring the you inside the me, the night inside the day, the outside inside the inside, the ocean inside the tear. Kim's radical, paradoxical intimacies entail sites of pain as well as wonder, opening onto impossible—which is to say, visionary—vistas. Again and again, in these poems as across her career, Kim unlocks a horizon inside the vanishing point.

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Works in English

Added to The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing (&NOW Books, 2013)[25]

Works in Korean

Essays

Interview

Ruth . Williams . "Female Poet" as Revolutionary Grotesque: Feminist Transgression in the Poetry of Ch'oe Sŭng-ja, Kim Hyesoon, and Yi Yŏn-ju . Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 29 . 2 . 2010 . 395–415. 10.1353/tsw.2010.a461384 . 41337285 . 161895782 . https://www.kln.or.kr/frames/interviewsView.do?bbsIdx=387

Awards

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 김혜순 Kim Hyesoon . 2022-07-19 . kimhyesoon . ko.
  2. News: Williams . Ruth . Kim Hyesoon: The Female Grotesque . Guernica . 1 January 2012.
  3. Web site: The Arts/Kim Hyesoon 2022 Laureates - HOAM . 2022-07-19 . www.hoamfoundation.org.
  4. Web site: 문학과 지성사 .
  5. Web site: Kim Hyesoon . 2022-07-19 . Modern Poetry in Translation . en-US.
  6. Web site: Kim Hyesoon . 2022-07-19 . www.poetryinternational.com . nl.
  7. Web site: 2022-07-19 . Kim Hyesoon . 2022-07-19 . Poetry Foundation . en.
  8. Web site: kim hyesoon Griffin poetry prize prize .
  9. News: Alter . Alexandra . Harris . Elizabeth A. . 2024-03-22 . Lorrie Moore Is Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners . 2024-07-04 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
  10. Web site: Harvard, T.S Eliot Memorial Reading .
  11. https://poetrysociety.org.uk/news/The poetry-society of England-books-of-the-year-2023/
  12. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/books/review/best-poetry-books-2023.html, https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/11/15/best-poetry/
  13. News: kim hyesoon's animal obsession .
  14. News: Kim Hyesoon - Going Going Gone . New York Times. 21 April 2022 .
  15. Celebrating kim hyesoon . Guernica . 6 July 2023 .
  16. kim hyeoon adeverbs fly . The Nation . June 2021 . Hyesoon . Kim .
  17. A kim hyesoon flio . Poetry Foundation . 4 August 2023 .
  18. kim hyesoon Smell of Wings . Boston Review .
  19. Kim Hyesoon Sugar mouse . European Review .
  20. Web site: poetryy international Rotterdam .
  21. Web site: Sheffield . Mike . 2023-11-11 . Korean Zen . 2023-12-13 . Tricycle: The Buddhist Review . en.
  22. Web site: Jenny Holzer . Jenny Holzer . 15 December 2019 .
  23. Web site: Poet Sasha Dugdale .
  24. Web site: 2023-05-04 . Poet Kim Hye-soon's 'Phantom Pain Wings' published in English . 2023-12-13 . . en.
  25. Book: 978-0982315644. The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing. Schneiderman. Davis. 2012. &NOW Books .
  26. News: Kim . E. Tammy . 2023-07-14 . Kim Hyesoon’s Animal Obsessions . en-US . The New Yorker . 2023-12-13 . 0028-792X.
  27. Web site: The Daesan Foundation .
  28. Web site: 2019-06-06 . Autobiography of Death by Don Mee Choi, translated from the Korean written by Kim Hyesoon and Quarrels by Eve Joseph Win the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20200221223654/https://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/autobiography-of-death-by-don-mee-choi-translated-from-the-korean-written-by-kim-hyesoon-and-quarrels-by-eve-joseph-win-the-2019-griffin-poetry-prize/ . 2020-02-21 . Griffin Poetry Prize.
  29. News: kim hyesoon Cikada Prize .
  30. Web site: 32회 삼성호암상…오용근 포스텍 교수 등 6인 수상 . 이인준 . 31 May 2022 . . 3 June 2022 . Korean.
  31. News: Royal Society of Literature 2022 International Writers .
  32. Web site: RSL International Writers. Royal Society of Literature. December 3, 2023.
  33. Web site: 2024-03-22 . NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES WINNERS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2023 . 2024-07-04 . National Book Critics Circle . en-US.

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