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Unexpected Vanilla

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A sensual, surrealist collection by a young feminist poet, in an equally sensuous and sensitive queer translation. Lee Hyemi's poetry is characterized by fluidity and wetness, with subjects moving about and soaking in each other through curious means. Unexpected Vanilla's exchange of liquids often involves sex, but intercourse can be nonsexual: drinking tea or alcohol, going to the beach, sitting in the same tub, crying, feeling your lover's sweat on your palm. In this way, Lee explores a wide variety of relationships, attractions, and sensations. Her erotically charged, surrealist sensibility can be traced back to the paintings of Leonor Fini, a bisexual Argentinian artist whom she admires. Lee subverts the titular "vanilla" norm without denying its pleasures. Detailing various intimacies in her "world of the second person," which feels clandestine but safe from the threat of exposure, Lee explores the Korean language's scope for...
Request Code : ZLIB.IO18078428
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Year:
2020
Publisher:
Tilted Axis Press
Language:
English
ISBN 13:
9781911284499
ISBN:
9781911284505, 9781911284499

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