Inscribed to the poet Jim LeCuyer on the title page: "For Jim, With deepest thanks and affection for a Poetry Flesh pillow-- Cheers, Suji, BABRA Awards, SFPL 2004." Likely the SFPL is the San Francisco Public Library, but your guess is as good as mine when it comes to "Poetry Flesh." Also signed in full above her name. Walt Whitman Award winner. Near fine only because of a slightly bumped/upturned upper corner; otherwise fine. Seller Inventory # ABE-1592969487361

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Title: Notes from the Divided Country: Poems

Publisher: LSU Press

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition.

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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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Suji Kwock Kim’s poems have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, Paris Review, New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times, and on National Public Radio.

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