{"product_id":"b-dragon-suite","title":"B-Dragon Suite","description":"\u003cp\u003eStine An\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis debut book of poetry treats translation as play, performance, and embodied sound. Across seven interlinked sections, Stine An stages a fabulated K-pop universe, complete with boy band LIL BANG and girl group The Pink Blossoms, alongside lyric poems and prose meditations that code-switch between Korean and English. The book situates K-pop as both pleasure engine and cultural archive, asking how language survives colonial history, migration, and spectacle without resolving into easy consumption.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'Stine An’s \u003ci\u003eB-Dragon Suite\u003c\/i\u003e shines forth from the crossroads of a transcultural, multilingual imaginary that bridges K-pop and poetry with a fierce, singular, poetics. Rich with cross-cultural sonorities and perspectives, the poems espouse sharp collisions—or slippages—between the US and Korea, poetry and music, translation and multilingualism, grief and resistance. This book threads hard histories into the needle of the present day, rewiring them into a poetic coup d’etat. It’s a maximalist, hyper-sensual, energizing treat, revealing the sinuousness of our globalized moment: some call it soft power, but the punches are very real.'- Sawako Nakayasu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'\u003ci\u003eB-Dragon Suite\u003c\/i\u003e is a book unlike anything you’ve read before—part K-pop performance notes, part emoji poetry, part meditation on the politics of language, wandering flowers, breastfeeding, dew, the infinity of Kafka’s lemonade, and the brutality of the Korean War. In this explosive debut, poet-translator Stine An playfully enacts a poetics of the b-side. \u003ci\u003eB-Dragon Suite\u003c\/i\u003e is an irreverent and thrilling chorus of voices and languages, a diaspora-song in a minor key sung from the marginal space of the underworld.'- Jackie Wang\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61797542560074,"sku":null,"price":22.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/B-DragonSuite_CatalogCover_3-scaled.jpg?v=1786443739","url":"https:\/\/boekhandelperdu.nl\/en\/products\/b-dragon-suite","provider":"Boekhandel Perdu","version":"1.0","type":"link"}