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Youna Kwak - For This and Other Cruelties, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

For This and Other Cruelties

Av Youna Kwak

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CALIBA’s 2025 Golden Poppy Book Award Winner, PoetryThe shadow of mothering has never been given a richer, fuller, more debased vision than in Youna Kwak’s For This and Other Cruelties. Kwak casts a cold eye on the splendid and cruel intransigence of maternal paradoxes in all their impossible double binds, monstrous pleasures, and profane mystifications. Shifting between lyric and prose poems, this collection throws slanted light on the ineffability of our deepest attachments, envisioning a world where mother is “a creature whose only enemy could be human.” Kwak brings us face to face with the irreconcilable facts of being mother, mothered, and alive.
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Youna Kwak is author of sur vie, and has been published in Po&sie, The Los Angeles Review, The Hopkins Review, Chicago Review, The Offing, La Traductière, Oversound, jubilat, Boston Review, and Action, Spectacle. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

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“To be mother or not to be mother is what I kept questioning as I read through Youna Kwak’s stunning second poetry collection—how she muddles as well as mothers the seemingly inconsequential question with her fabulist logic and language. Look carefully, and Kwak’s ‘book of the death of the mother’ grows from the messed-up, bloody bed of race, class, gender, and nation. Kwak’s ‘mother’ is not unlike Kim Hyesoon’s ‘mommy’ in that they perpetually mutate and survive, tragically or not, under the same moon, the same shredded tongue, the same global warfare.”—Don Mee Choi, author, DMZ Colony

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