Ordinary Misfortunes: Poetry Collection by Emily Jungmin Yoon

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Ordinary Misfortunes by Emily Jungmin Yoon (Tupelo Press, paperback)

Publication Date: July 1, 2017

Publisher Marketing: Poetry. Winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Award. Korea continues to grapple with the shared memory of its Japanese and US occupations. The poems in ORDINARY MISFORTUNES incorporate actual testimony about cruelty against vulnerable bodies—including the wianbu, euphemistically known as “comfort women”—as the poet seeks to find places where brutality is overcome through true human connections. Emily Jungmin Yoon asks, Why do we write poems amid such violence? What can I, and what can poetry, do? Her response to those tough questions is a sequence of reverberating poems that blend documentary precision with impassioned witness, bringing to bear both scholarship and artistry.

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