A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems Yoon Emily Jungmin
A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems Yoon Emily Jungmin A piercing debut collection of poems exploring gender, race, and violence from a sensational new talentIn her arresting collection, urgently…
Specifikacia A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems Yoon Emily Jungmin
A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems Yoon Emily Jungmin
A piercing debut collection of poems exploring gender, race, and violence from a sensational new talentIn her arresting collection, urgently relevant for our times, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon confronts the histories of sexual violence against women, focusing in particular on Korean so-called "comfort women," women who were forced into sexual labor in Japanese-occupied territories during World War II.In wrenching language, A Cruelty Special to Our Species unforgettably describes the brutalities of war and the fear and sorrow of those whose lives and bodies were swept up by a colonizing power, bringing powerful voice to an oppressed group of people whose histories have often been erased and overlooked. "What is right in war."Moving readers through time, space, and different cultures, and "What is a body in a stolen country," Yoon asks.