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Like her sister book,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHardly War, it holds history accountable, its very presence a resistance to empire and a hope in humankind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43835725250774,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/products\/81iCKop2U8L.jpg?v=1669307130"},{"product_id":"phantom-pain-wings","title":"Phantom Pain Wings","description":"\u003cp\u003e Kim Hyesoon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eAn iconic figure in the emergence of feminist poetry in South Korea and now internationally renowned, Kim Hyesoon pushes the poetic envelope into the farthest reaches of the lyric universe. In her new collection, Kim depicts the memory of war trauma and the collective grief of parting through what she calls an “I-do-bird-sequence,” where “Bird-human is the 'I.'” Her remarkable essay “Bird Rider” explains: “I came to write\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhantom Pain Wings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eafter Daddy passed away. I called out for birds endlessly. I wanted to become a translator of bird language. Bird language that flies to places I've never been.” What unfolds is an epic sequence of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ebird ventriloquy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexploring the relentless physical and existential struggles against power and gendered violence in “the eternal void of grief” (Victoria Chang,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e ). Through intensely rhythmic lines marked by visual puns and words that crash together and then fly away as one, Kim mixes traditional folklore and mythology with contemporary psychodramatic realities as she taps into a cremation ceremony, the legacies of Rimbaud and Yi Sang, a film by Agnès Varda, Francis Bacon's portrait of Pope Innocent X, cyclones, a princess trapped in a hospital, and more. A simultaneity of voices and identities rises and falls, existing and exiting on their delayed wings of pain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/collections\/159850\/doing-poetry\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eClick through\u003c\/a\u003e for a folio compiled by the Poetry Foundation in celebration of the launch of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44048788422870,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/Phantom-Pain-Wings-front-cover-scaled_1.jpg?v=1769778850"},{"product_id":"translation-is-a-mode-translation-is-an-anti-neocolonial-mode","title":"Translation Is a Mode=Translation Is an Anti-Neocolonial Mode","description":"\u003cp\u003eDon Mee Choi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDon Mee Choi is the author of three books of poetry and hybrid essays, and an award-winning translator of contemporary Korean women’s poetry. In this pamphlet, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTranslation is a Mode=Translation is an Anti-neocolonial Mode\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, she explores translation and language in the context of US imperialism—through the eyes of a “foreigner;” a translator; a child in Timoka, the made-up city of Ingmar Bergman’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Silence\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; a child from a neocolony.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46916987224394,"sku":"","price":13.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/Translation-is-a-Mode-2nd-Edition-633x1024.jpg?v=1697639842"},{"product_id":"hardly-war","title":"Hardly War","description":"\u003cp\u003eDon Mee Choi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eHardly War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Don Mee Choi's major second collection, defies history, national identity, and militarism. Using artifacts from Choi's father, a professional photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, she combines memoir, image, and opera to explore her paternal relationship and heritage. Here poetry and geopolitics are inseparable twin sisters, conjoined to the belly of a warring empire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47257703776586,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/9781950268399_FC.jpg?v=1699711020"},{"product_id":"mirror-nation-1","title":"Mirror Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003eDon Mee Choi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eElegiac and haunting, \u003ci\u003eMirror Nation\u003c\/i\u003e by Don Mee Choi completes the KOR-US trilogy, along with \u003ci\u003eHardly War\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2016) and the National Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eDMZ Colony\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMuch like Proust's madeleine, a spinning Mercedez Benz ring outside Choi's Berlin window prompts a memory of her father on the Glienicker Bridge between Berlin and Potsdam, which in turn becomes catalyst for delving into the violent colonial and neocolonial contemporary history of South Korea, with particular attention to the horrors of the Gwangju Uprising of May 1980. Here, photographs, news footage, and cultural artifacts comingle with a poetry of grief that is both personal and collective. Inspired by W. G. Sebald and Walter Benjamin as well as Choi's DAAD Artists residency in Berlin, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMirror Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a sorrowful reflection on the ways in which a place can hold a \"magnetic field of memory,\" proving that history doesn't merely repeat itself; history is ever present, chiming the hours in a chorus against empire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47257725174090,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/9781950268931_FC.jpg?v=1699711020"},{"product_id":"yi-sang-selected-works","title":"Selected Works","description":"\u003cp\u003eYi Sang (trans. 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Presenting the work of the influential Korean modernist master, this carefully curated selection assembles poems, essays, and stories that ricochet off convention in a visionary and daring response to personal and national trauma, reminding us that to write from the avant-garde is a form of civil disobedience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47257748439370,"sku":"","price":27.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/71m-CyBlCfL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1699611875"},{"product_id":"autobiography-of-death","title":"Autobiography of Death","description":"\u003cp\u003eKim Hyesoon (trans. 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