“As a university student, I tried hard to write poems in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.” ThinkingWorldWritingHardStudentsUniversityKoreanUniversity Students Author:Kim Hyesoon
“Living in South Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in.” WorldGirlInvolvedSouthUniversityDiscriminationLimitationKoreaKoreanSouth Korea Author:Kim Hyesoon
“When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written anywhere, but this rule existed nonetheless. Consequently, I received plenty of serious criticism.” WorldWrittenSeriousPoetCriticismExpectedPlentyKorean Author:Kim Hyesoon
“I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together.” WorldBodyTogetherCultureLanguagePiecesThis WorldBrokenDiseaseSickDictatorshipGrotesque Author:Kim Hyesoon
“The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images I use in my poems are the same as the letters I send into the miserable world.” WorldUseTogetherLettersMiserableGrotesque Author:Kim Hyesoon
“Since the boundary of the world of poetry is fluid, the language in it is also fluid. Hence, the language that is outside of the poetry world, namely the language that is not the language of poetry, cannot go into the poetry world.” WorldLanguageBoundariesPoetry IsFluid Author:Kim Hyesoon
“As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body. They were in some kind of state and condition that made them difficult to render into words. As a university student, I tried hard to write them in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingKindLongMadeHardStatesBodyKidsFeltDifficultSunCrazyConditionsObjectsStudentsWindPeriodsWindowSeasonsSickUniversityObservationGrandfatherFillingMy GrandfatherKoreanCrazy PeopleFilling UpUniversity StudentsSick Kids Author:Kim Hyesoon
“Living in Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in now.” WorldGirlInvolvedUniversityDiscriminationLimitationKoreaKorean Author:Kim Hyesoon
