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For This and Other Cruelties

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Availability:In StockContributor:Youna KwakSeries:Kuhl House PoetsPublish date:9/22/2025Pages:114
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Iowa PressISBN-13:9781685970284ISBN-10:1685970281UPC:9781685970284Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:FamilySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCQ45KRC1Y
The 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Iowa PressISBN-13:9781685970284ISBN-10:1685970281UPC:9781685970284Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:FamilySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCQ45KRC1Y
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.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press

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