Kim Hyesoon

Kim Hyesoon[1] (Korean: 김혜순) is a South Korean poet.

In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.
Kim Hyesoon
Kim Hyesoon in Frankfurt (2019).
Kim Hyesoon in Frankfurt (2019).
BornUljin County, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea
OccupationPoet, professor
NationalitySouth Korean
GenrePoetry
Literary movementFeminism
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationGim Hyesun
McCune–ReischauerKim Hye-sun

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 "Poet Smoking a Cigarette" ("Dambaereul piuneun siin") along with four other of her poems in the literary magazine Literature and Intellect (Munhak-kwa Jiseong). Kim is an 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.[4][5]

Work

Kim started to receive critical acclaim in the late 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.[6] More recently she has also received the Lee Hyoung-Gi Literary Award (2019), the Griffin Poetry Prize (2019), the Cikada Prize, and the Samsung Ho-Am Prize in the Arts (2022) U.K Royal Society of Literature International writer (2022).

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: Smith College Poetry Center (2003), Taipei Poetry Festival (2008), 41st Poetry International Festival Rotterdam (2010), Poesie Festival Berlin (2011), Poetry Parnassus London (2012), Stockholm international Poetry Festival(2014), Hong Kong International Poetry nights(2015), Festival for World Literature Cologne (2018), The Center for Art of Translation (2019), Poetry Foundation (2019), AAWW (2019), Fokus Lylic – Festivalkongress, Frankfurt (2019), Mason de Ra Poesie Paris (2019), L'École normale Supérieure (2019), St, John's College, Cambridge (2019), New Castle Poetry Festival (2019), Litteratur Huset Trondheim Norway (2019), Litteratur pa Bla, Oslo (2019), Terrapolis, Charlottenborg Copenhagen (2019), and the 51st Poetry International Festival Rotterdam (2021), Stockholm international Poetry Festival(2022).

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

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.

The birdlike Kim weaves a pattern of poems, so strangely compelling and curious, and utterly unlike anything I had heard before. —Sasha Dugdale

Works in English
  • Phantom Pain Wings New Directions Publishing, translated by Don Mee Choi ISBN 978-0811231718
  • A Drink of Red Mirror Action Books ISBN 978-0900575808
  • The Autobiography of Death New Directions Publishing, translated by Don Mee Choi ISBN 978-0811227346 (the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize)
  • Poor Love Machine Action Books ISBN 978-0-900575-75-4
  • I'm O.K, I'm Pig Bloodaxe Books ISBN 978-1-78037-102-3
  • Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream Action Books ISBN 978-0-9898048-1-3
  • Mommy Must be a Fountain of Feathers Action Books ISBN 0979975514
  • Anxiety of Words (Collection with other authors) Zephyr Press ISBN 0939010879
  • All the Garbage of the World, Unite! Action Books ISBN 0983148015
  • When the Plug Gets Unplugged
  • Princess Abandoned (essays), (Tinfish, 2012)
  • Trilingual Renshi Vagabond Press ISBN 978-1-922181-44-2

Added to The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing (&NOW Books, 2013)[7]

Works in Korean
  • From Another Star, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul, 1981
  • Father's Scarecrow, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul, 1985
  • The Hell of a Certain Star, Ch’ŏngha Seoul, 1988. Reprinted by Munhakdongnae, 1997
  • Our Negative Picture, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul, 1991
  • My Upanishad, Seoul, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul, 1994
  • A Poor Love Machine, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul, 1997
  • To the Calendar Factory Manager, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul, 2000
  • A Glass of Red Mirror, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul, 2004
  • Your First, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul, 2008
  • Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul 2011
  • Blossom, Pig, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul 2016
  • The Autobiography of Death, Munhaksilheomsil, Seoul 2016
  • Phantom Pain of wings, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul 2019
  • After Earth Dies, who will Moon Orbit?, Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, Seoul 2022

Essays
  • To Write as a Woman: Lover, Patient, Poet, and You (Seoul: Munhakdongnae, 2002) - Essay on Poetry
  • Thus Spoke No (Poessay) (Seoul: Munhakdongane, 2016)
  • Women, Do Poetry (Seoul: Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, 2017)
  • Do Womananimalasia (Seoul: Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, 2019)

Interview

Williams, Ruth (2010). ""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): 395–415. JSTOR 41337285. https://www.kln.or.kr/frames/interviewsView.do?bbsIdx=387

Awards
  • Kim Su-yeong Award (1997)
  • Sowol Poetry Award (2000)
  • Contemporary Poetry Award (2000)
  • Korea Culture and Arts Foundation 'This Year's' Art Prize (2004)
  • Midang Literature Award (2006)
  • Daesan Literature Award (2008)
  • Lee Hyoung-Gi Literary Award (2019)
  • Korea Culture & Art Prize (2019)
  • Griffin Poetry Prize (2019)[8]
  • Cikada Prize (2021, Sweden)
  • Ho-Am Prize in the Arts (2022)[9]
  • U.K Royal Society of Literature International writer (2022)

See also

References
  1. "김혜순 | Kim Hyesoon". kimhyesoon (in Korean). Retrieved 2022-07-19.
  2. Williams, Ruth (1 January 2012). "Kim Hyesoon: The Female Grotesque". Guernica.
  3. "The Arts/Kim Hyesoon 2022 Laureates - HOAM". www.hoamfoundation.org. Retrieved 2022-07-19.
  4. "Kim Hyesoon". Modern Poetry in Translation. Retrieved 2022-07-19.
  5. "Kim Hyesoon". www.poetryinternational.com (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-07-19.
  6. "Kim Hyesoon". Poetry Foundation. 2022-07-19. Retrieved 2022-07-19.
  7. Schneiderman, Davis (2012). The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing. ISBN 978-0982315644.
  8. 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/
  9. 이인준 (31 May 2022). "32회 삼성호암상…오용근 포스텍 교수 등 6인 수상". Newsis (in Korean). Retrieved 3 June 2022.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.