{"product_id":"have-you-been-feeling-blue-these-days","title":"Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days?","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese deft, nuanced, and unmannered translations of Kim Eon Hee's poems introduce a genuinely exciting poet to the English-speaking world, one whose work reveals for us the limitations of our conceptions of what poetry is and the colonial legacies that structure our basic concepts of poetry, such as the gendered and raced expectations of the poetic speaker and of what counts as \"experimental\" writing. Kim's poetry, as the translators write, is \"unafraid of graphic disappointment or the pits\": she brilliantly violates our idea of what is acceptable for an Asian female poet to say out loud.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKim Eon Hee\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1953 in Jinju, Gyeongsang Province. She is the author of five volumes of poetry. Her first collection \u003cem\u003eModern Ars Poetica\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 1989. Followed by, \u003cem\u003eTrunk, The Girl who Sleeps Under a Withering Cherry Tree, Unexpected Response,\u003c\/em\u003e and her latest from 2016 \u003cem\u003eThe Man I Miss\u003c\/em\u003e. First published in 2011,\u003cem\u003e Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days?\u003c\/em\u003e, is her fourth poetry collection, and the first of her books' to be translated into English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEunsong Kim\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Northeastern University. Her practice spans: literary studies, critical digital studies, poetics, translation, visual culture and critical race \u0026amp; ethnic studies. Her writings have appeared in: \u003cem\u003eLateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, and in the book anthologies, \u003cem\u003eDeep Fakes\u003c\/em\u003e from the \u003cem\u003eAlgorithm's \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/em\u003e series, \u003cem\u003ePoetics of Social Engagement\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eReading Modernism with Machines.\u003c\/em\u003e Her poetry has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eBrooklyn Magazine, The Iowa Review, Minnesota Review\u003c\/em\u003e amongst others. She is the author of \u003cem\u003egospel of regicide\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Noemi Press in 2017, and with Sung Gi Kim she translated Kim Eon Hee's poetic text \u003cem\u003eHave You Been Feeling Blue These Days?\u003c\/em\u003e published in 2019. Her forthcoming academic monograph, \u003cem\u003eThe Politics of Collecting: Race \u0026amp; the Aestheticization of Property\u003c\/em\u003e (Duke University Press 2024) materializes the histories of immaterialism by examining the rise of US museums, avant-garde forms, digitization, and neoliberal aesthetics, to consider how race and property become foundational to modern artistic institutions. She is the recipient of the Ford Foundation Fellowship, a grant from the Andy Warhol Art Writers Program, and Yale's Poynter Fellowship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSung Gi Kim\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning journalist and photographer who writes about Asian affairs with a focus on the Korean Peninsula. He is a Seoul correspondent and producer for Thomson Reuters. He was part of a team that produced a documentary on South Korea's education system, which won silver at the 2016 New York Festivals. His work has been published in \u003cem\u003eThe Sunday Times, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Nikkei Asian Review\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eUnited Press International.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sung Gi Kim's and Eunsong Kim's deft, nuanced, and unmannered translations of Kim Eon Hee's poems introduce a genuinely exciting poet to the English-speaking world, one whose work reveals for us the limitations of our conceptions of what poetry is and the colonial legacies that structure our basic concepts of poetry, such as the gendered and raced expectations of the poetic speaker and of what counts as 'experimental' writing. Kim's poetry, as the translators write, is 'unafraid of graphic disappointment or the pits': she brilliantly violates our idea of what is acceptable for an Asian female poet to say out loud. The backdrop to Kim's playful 'absurdist' poetry is the neoliberal and neocolonial context of contemporary South Korea and its relationship to the United States, the two countries in the Kims' words, 'economic and political collaborators.' They rightly describe Kim Eon Hee's poetry as 'an unexpectedly politicized space,' as, equally so, are their translations—and, indeed, all poetry and all translations.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eDorothy Wang\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days? Kim Eon Hee writes compellingly against the grain of neocolonialist, neoliberal K-culture, producing a poetry that grapples towards weakness, the Korean undercommons, language's and life's true, failed becoming-in-the-world. Mirroring Kim's practice, Sung Gi Kim and Eunsong Kim brilliantly record their own anxiety and impasse as and in translation, in the introduction and the body of the poems themselves: the result is a resonant and clarifying 'semblance of feeling…we can witness only outside of language.'\" - \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Keene\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Itasca Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54526379294995,"sku":"9781934819814","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/3521\/2563\/files\/9781934819814ita.jpg?v=1785852183","url":"https:\/\/danuc.net\/products\/have-you-been-feeling-blue-these-days","provider":"Danu's Wardrobe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}