About this title: Notes from a Divided Country, Kim's first collection of poetry, 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 ...
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Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Date Published: 2003-04-01
ISBN-13:9780807128732ISBN:0807128732
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, Chapel Hill, NC
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780807128732ISBN:0807128732
Description: Near Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. x, 74 pp. Very slightly rubbed corner, essentially as issued. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780807128732ISBN:0807128732
Description: Good. Lightly bumped corners from shelf wear. Inside is clean and excellent. From Booklist: The four parts of Kim's impressive first collection contain poems of family, history, love, and vision, respectively. The first part is punch-in-the-guts powerful. After opening with the spiritually virtuosic "Generations, " tracing the poet's journey from before conception to implantation in the womb, the poems lay out a painful familial scenario, the soul-searing climax of which comes in "ST RAGE, " ... read more
Edition: First paperback edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780807128732ISBN:0807128732
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. x, 74 pp.; 23 cm. AS NEW. "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 ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
Date Published: 2003-04-01
ISBN-13:9780807128732ISBN:0807128732
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780807128732ISBN:0807128732
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780807128732ISBN:0807128732
Description: As New. 0807128732. No defects. Book is unread. Elegantly SIGNED by the author on the title page. Winner of the 2002 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. Trade PB. 8vo 8"-9" tall. 80 pages. read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
ISBN-13:9780807128732ISBN:0807128732
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Edition: 1st printing of 1st edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780807128732ISBN:0807128732
Description: fine in decorative wrappers (soft cover book) Winner of the 2002 Walt Whitman Award. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Date Published: 2003-04
ISBN-13:9780807128732ISBN:0807128732
Description: Very Good. 1st Printing (Stated) 2003 Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge) Trade Paperback; text clean/UNMARKED; color cover near mint/mild edge+corner wear+curling; spine perfect; NOT x-library; No remainder mark; 74 pages+10 preliminary pgs; 4 parts/34 poems; notes; author biography; Winner of 2002 Walt Whitman Award of Academy of American Poets; "a brilliant, unerasable book...poems as a whole surprise not only by their ambition + ferocity but delicacy, sudden reserves of ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: LOUISIANA STATE UNIV PR
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780807128732ISBN:0807128732
Description: New. In her first collection, Suji Kwock Kim confronts a number of very 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 l... read more
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