Ordinary Misfortunes

by Emily Jungmin Yoon

Korea continues to grapple with the shared memory of its Japanese and US occupations. The poems in Ordinary Misfortunes incorporate actual testimony about cruelty against vulnerable bodies--including the wianbu, euphemistically known as "comfort women"--as the poet seeks to find places where brutality is overcome through true human connections. Emily Jungmin Yoon asks Why do we write poems amid such violence? What can I, and what can poetry, do? Her...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1946482064
• ISBN13: 9781946482068
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"