Author: Emily Jungmin Yoon
Publisher: Tupelo Press, 2017
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From the publisher’s website:
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.