Grotesque Weather and Good People Lim Solah
Grotesque Weather and Good People Lim Solah A debut English translation of contemporary free verse poetry by award-winning South Korean poet and novelist Lim Solah. Writing in a simple vernacular,…
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Grotesque Weather and Good People Lim Solah
A debut English translation of contemporary free verse poetry by award-winning South Korean poet and novelist Lim Solah. Writing in a simple vernacular, Lim's lyric I struggles with the poet's call to "wonder" in a world lurking with quiet dissonance and horror. By turns humorous and dark, these poems explore the simultaneous intimacy and alienation of everyday life in urban Seoul.
Many of these poems incorporate elements of drama and fiction, including documentary, collapsing the boundaries between the imaginary and the real as they explore the writer's relationship with multitudinous versions of her many selves. Already an acclaimed novelist and prose writer, Lim Solah came out with her first collection of poems, Grotesque Weather and Nice People, in 2017. While BTS light up the charts and Korean films gather international awards, Lim's poems paint a strange and disorienting map of