All the Garbage of the World, Unite!

Poetry. East Asia Studies. Translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi. The celebrated Korean poet Kim Hyesoon writes from a radiant black zone where matter becomes dark matter, human becomes trinket, garbage becomes god, a zero-point for our present moment's grotesque and spectacular inversions. This volume includes a selection of recent work, the landmark poem Manhole Humanity, and the essay In the Oxymoronic World. With fiercely incisive translations and a preface by Don Mee Choi. As garbage, love and death accumulate in her poems, your world will be changed for real --Aase Berg