![]() ![]() ![]() In her introduction she writes, “Poetry is not just relief poetry is tension. For Yoon, poetry is the space to explore the history and impact of these narratives, as well as her own conflicts with language, identity and place. Her most urgent question: how do we live and move forward with the pain of these stories? She focuses on the pain of the women who survived and later testified to their treatment, but ties their stories into narrative poems about present-day aggressions, the complexities of language, nature and relationships. Yoon’s poems explore the inherent violence of humanity, juxtaposed against the world’s natural beauty. The collection asks questions more than it demands answers. ![]() Throughout the collection, Yoon is positioned as an anthropologist-poet and historian-blending poetry and research to retell and amplify the narratives of these women who lived and survived during Japanese imperial rule. ![]() In her debut collection, “A Cruelty Special to Our Species,” Emily Jungmin Yoon fuses art history and craft to explore the unresolved controversies of the Korean “comfort women” during the country’s colonial era under the Japanese Empire and the impact of violent histories on the minds and bodies of the present. ![]()
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