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“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.”

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Kim Hyesoon

Kim Hyesoon, born in 1955, is an author whose identity and profession are unknown. Her life story, achievements, and contributions are currently limited in available information, and her impact and evaluation are not yet clear. more

“It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society is based on both a politics and history that have been disguised as a solid society of solid male poems, a solid written language, fixed rules of how to write literature, and a narrative language.”

Writing Has Beens Literature Language Difficult Common Written Perspective Males Narrative Fixed Bent Korean Usage Written Language

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“We carve on our body what society teaches us and continue this task, not knowing the identity they force us to have. This identity is carved on our faces and our skins. Not knowing our bodies have become "the paper made of human meat," we stuff our bodies and make them a theater where cultural symbols or suppressed symbols play.”

Humans Made Play Body Faces Force Stuff Teach Knowing Identity Paper Tasks Skins Theater Symbols Meat Not Knowing

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“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.”

World Body Together Culture Language Pieces This World Broken Disease Sick Dictatorship Grotesque

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“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.”

World Use Together Letters Miserable Grotesque

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