In her first collection, Suji Kwock Kim confronts a number of difficult subjects―colonialism, the Korean War, emigration, racism, and love. She considers what a homeland would be for a divided nation and a divided self: what it means to enter language, the body, the family, the community; to be a daughter, sister, lover, citizen, or exile.
In settings from New York to San Francisco, from Scotland to Seoul, her poems question “what threads hold / our lives together” in cities and gardens, battlefields and small towns. Across the no-man’s-land between every “you” and “I,” her speakers encounter, quarrel with, or honor others, traveling between the living and the dead, between horror over the disastrous events of the past and hope for the future. Drawing upon a wide range of voices, styles, and perspectives, Notes from the Divided Country bears witness to the vanishing world.
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"Powerful . . . These eloquent poems address the reader with an unswerving mix of music and vivid pain. These are poems of desolation and absence, political in the largest sense and private in the truest. . . .They mark the emergence of an exciting new voice." --- EAVAN BOLAND
"I am deeply moved and instructed by Suji Kwock Kim's brilliant debut collection, which moves fluently between the living and the dead, the Korean past and the Asian American present. NOTES FROM THE DIVIDED COUNTRY is a heartfelt, blood-soaked work of flights and explorations, of personal probings and historical exposures, of suffering and responsibility, of tribute and witness, of American soul-making." --- EDWARD HIRSCH
"NOTES FROM THE DIVIDED COUNTRY is a beautiful book of which an entire people, we undivided Americans, can be deeply proud. Kim's brilliantly crafted, brave new poems move us into an emotional union with the seemingly far-flung past of Korea's political geography that resulted, in just a short generation's time, in the making of over five hundred thousand new Americans. What voice, what witness, what glorious descendancy." --- GARRETT HONGO
"NOTES FROM THE DIVIDED COUNTRY springs out of a civil war in the soul. . . .[Its] revelation of horror is so explicit, so necessary; a facing up to history that frees the speaker. . . .[She] seem[s] to know that only an approximation of the truth can make [her] whole again, that even in the negative there's nobility. To understand the gift of the senses is a blessing. It is a graceful, powerful trope. . . .There's love and sadness at the root of these poems. There is also a bridge, a language that mends." --- YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, from his judge's citation
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