{"product_id":"the-hell-of-that-star","title":"The Hell of That Star","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Kim Hyesoon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Wesleyan University Press (2026)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe astonishing poetry collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Hell of That Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e enlivens the horror of Korean life under U.S.-backed authoritarianism. Poems of blows and vomit, births and coffins alternate blithe confidence and trembling terror. When slapped seven times by a government censor, Kim responded with defiant poems. The death of language becomes a death of the writer; within death, Kim finds new life in fragmentation and reorientation. This singular volume provides a wild and rigorous study of the words of the nation-state and the self, as well as the deprivations, detainments, and surprises in between. In evading censorship, Kim's poems question, twist, and transmute; language is a site where the personal and political meet to escape containment, emptiness, and domestication. The book includes essays by the author and translator.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44164415062115,"sku":"9780819502186","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/8655\/1139\/files\/THOTS.jpg?v=1778024322","url":"https:\/\/woodlandpatternbookcenter.com\/products\/the-hell-of-that-star","provider":"Woodland Pattern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}