Glory Hole

Kim Hyun, Suhyun J. Ahn, Archana Madhavan, Suhyun J. Ahn, Archana Madhavan

• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9780857429872
• eBook ISBN: 9781803090191
• Topic: Literatura
• Subtopic: Poesía

A ground-breaking new collection of queer poetry from a leading contemporary Korean poet.
 
Kim Hyun's Glory Hole is the first Korean queer poetry collection. Featuring gay teens, elders, cats, caterpillars, robots, and other unexpected characters, Kim's fifty-one eccentric poems trace themes of love, sexual desire, abandonment, destitution, and death. In recounting the splendid yet tragic journeys of his speakers, Kim defies meaningful sense-making. His poems are a mishmash of dystopian sci-fi and pornography, storytelling and poetry, fictive references, and real figures. They are not embellished with elegant imagery; in fact, they are antithetical to it, opting instead for incoherent tense, unidiomatic expressions, and never-ending puns. After all, like LGBTQ+ people in many cultures, Korean queers live in this site of violence. Bewilderment, deliberately, is Kim Hyun's form. Glory Hole invites readers into a very queer world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• About the Author and Translators
• The Pride List
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Translator’s Note
• Preface
• Inhumane
• What Do Angels Do on Silent and Holy Nights;
• Lone Wood’s Retirement Party
• Galaxy Express 999
• Rewind
• Queer; a Story That Is Always Told
• A Meeting with the Writer
• With the Dead Ones
• Write the Novel, the Novel; “Please Find My Shoes. They’re Sandals, Blue Sandals” by Madame Novel Cabbage
• Nine Years on Jupiter
• Blow Job
• A Tribute to a Replicant about Which Gary Mumbled
• Greengrass Disappeared
• A World History of Midwives
• Cobweb Carpet
• Eyes and Ears, Look for Vanished Words
• Mr. Withers of Withering Woods
• When They Were High on Drugs
• Nightswimming
• Real Boy
• Long-Tailed Darlin
• Big Animal
• A Cathedral
• Sirius Somewhere
• Dear Old Miss Lonelyhearts of “Dear Old Miss Lonelyhearts”
• Old Baby Homo
• Death
• Dylan
• What Do Angels Do on Silent and Holy Nights;
• Tale of the Qishi Girl (漆室女傳)
• Ashes of Time
• s
• An Illustration of Time by the Merry Pranksters
• Write the Novel, the Novel; Those Days
• First of the Gang to Die
• The Last Blotch
• Polonaise
• (cont.)
• THE FUTURE
• Regarding Cate Blanchett’s Dream
• Border
• The Last Person on Space Ferris Wheel No. 12
• Write the Novel, the Novel; in the Final Days of the Novel, Blake with the Blue Gloves
• The Tale of Cho
• Mansion
• Susan Boreman’s Retirement Party
• What Do Angels Do on Silent and Holy Nights;
• Sad Vagina
• A Mechanic of the Night
• Montgomery Clift
• Earth
• COMMENTARY | The Real Queer Sci-fi–Metafiction Theater: A Handbook to Glory Hole
• Human
• Notes