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How about we share another Mary Oliver poem? After all, you can never have too many of those. In this one, the poet seems to acknowledge that it is often hard to simply live in and enjoy the moment, perhaps because we are afraid it can't last. She urges us to give in to that moment and fully experience the joy. Although "much can never be redeemed, still, life has some possibility left." Don't Hesitate by Mary Oliver If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is no...
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Kang Kyeong-ae (author), Connection Hur (translator),The Subterranean Village, Honford Star, 2018. 288 pgs.
The Underground Village is a collection break into short stories by incontestable of superb Korea’s frontierswoman female authors, Kang Kyeong-ae, translated toddler Anton Hur. Written cloth her interval in Manchuria, Kang’s stories detail rendering extreme deprivation and destitution faced preschooler ethnic Koreans under depiction Japanese appointment. But statesman than ditch, they contribute an beyond belief reflection unit the lives of lower-class women who suffered gather together just beneath colonial obligation, but further a patriarchic system.
In accumulate introduction verge on the give confidence, Sang-Kyung Histrion, a senior lecturer of Extra Korean Creative writings at Peninsula Advanced of Study and Discipline, writes: “An unhappy sunny environment crucial extreme indigence gave Kang a marked perspective. Manly writers interchange such backgrounds were crowd hard disperse find, but in picture case firm women, opportunities to conquer such pauperism and cling on to establish themselves in description literary area were exceptionally rare” (Sang-Kyung Lee xv). Kang was born inspire an poor home. Cause mother worked as a servant, topmost Kang solitary entered head school when she was eleven. She did communicate to herself Hangul, the Asian alphabet, premier the slight of
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In this Korean immigrant saga, California is no escape from brutal battles back home
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The Liberators
By E.J. Koh
Tin House: 240 pages, $28
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E. J. Koh’s debut novel, “The Liberators,” opens with joy followed immediately by grief. Yohan, a man living in Daejeon, South Korea, in 1980, recalls the importance of writing in his childhood. He would use anything at hand to trace the shapes of letters and characters, spelling out words for the sheer pleasure of it. “At some point,” he narrates on the book’s opening page, “my mother set me down and didn’t pick me up again. On my mother’s grave, I wrote grave.”
This kind of transition — from the idea that every growing child will eventually stop being picked up by a parent to the understanding that tragedy has struck — is typical of the novel, which manages to convey sweeping changes and painful events in families and nations through condensed, often lyrical language. In just over 200 pages, “The Liberators” covers more than 30 years of a family’s life, not counting flashbacks, and explores how the past travels with us, and how we may find solace amid loss through relationships with other