{"product_id":"glory-hole-9780857429872","title":"Glory Hole","description":"\u003cb\u003eA ground-breaking new collection of queer poetry from a leading contemporary Korean poet.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Kim Hyun's \u003ci\u003eGlory Hole \u003c\/i\u003eis the first Korean queer poetry collection. Featuring gay teens, elders, cats, caterpillars, robots, and other unexpected characters, Kim's fifty-one eccentric poems trace themes of love, sexual desire, abandonment, destitution, and death. In recounting the splendid yet tragic journeys of his speakers, Kim defies meaningful sense-making. His poems are a mishmash of dystopian sci-fi and pornography, storytelling and poetry, fictive references, and real figures. They are not embellished with elegant imagery; in fact, they are antithetical to it, opting instead for incoherent tense, unidiomatic expressions, and never-ending puns. After all, like LGBTQ+ people in many cultures, Korean queers live in this site of violence. Bewilderment, deliberately, is Kim Hyun's form. \u003ci\u003eGlory Hole \u003c\/i\u003einvites readers into a very queer world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSouth Korean author \u003cb\u003eKim Hyun\u003c\/b\u003e has published four volumes of poems and six essay collections, and he has co-authored several queer novels and anthologies. \u003cb\u003eSuhyun J. Ahn \u003c\/b\u003eis a PhD candidate studying East Asian philosophy and politics. By day, \u003cb\u003eArchana Madhavan \u003c\/b\u003eis a technical writer helping people to make data-driven decisions. By night, she is a fitful writer and a budding translator of Korean literature and comics.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50383612182802,"sku":"9780857429872","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a5379e46-7f9b-4c83-a281-daae5ac2371b.jpg?v=1728784850","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/glory-hole-9780857429872","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}