Notes from the Divided Country (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Suji Kwock Kim
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Time of Work: 1929-2000
- Setting: Korea, the United States, and Scotland
- Principal Characters: The persona, The Mother, The Father, The Brother, The Boyfriend
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Suffering, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Class consciousness, Asia or Asians, Immigration or emigration, War, Asian Americans, Korea or Koreans, Korean War
- Locales: United States, Korea, Scotland
With Notes from the Divided Country, Suji Kwock Kim offers her readers a powerful first book of poems. Her poetry, deeply personal, combines Western and Eastern poetic traditions with Asian themes and intensely reflects on crucial aspects of the Asian American experience. The poet’s voice is detailed and observant. The poems focus on concrete objects as well as abstract emotions and offer a view of the terrifying swings of recent Korean history. In reading Kim’s poetry, the reader is as likely to encounter a Korean American mother chopping food for her children in New Jersey...
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