The World's Lightest Motorcycle
(Paperback, Bilingual edition)
Publishing Details
The World's Lightest Motorcycle
By (Author) Won Yi
Translated by Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
Translated by E. J. Koh
Zephyr Press
Zephyr Press
22nd February 2022
Bilingual edition
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
895.715
Physical Properties
Paperback
128
Width 139mm, Height 190mm
Description
A major avant-garde feminist poet and essayist, and a successor to Kim Hyesoon (Autobiography of Death) and other groundbreaking Korean feminist poets;
Bilingual (Korean and English) on facing pages;
Blurbs by Don Mee Choi and Joyelle McSweeney;
Yi Won featured at the 2020 Berlin Poetry Festival, and has won numerous awards in South Korea;
Translators awards: Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello won the AWP Donald Hall Prize, Florida Book Award Bronze Medal, Milt Kessler Poetry Award finalist; E. J. Koh won the Pleiades Editors Prize for Poetry, Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence;
E. J. Kohs new memoir The Magical Language of Others (Tin House, 2020) received rave reviews in Shelf Awareness (starred review), San Francisco Chronicle, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Seattle International Examiner, World Literature Today, and elsewhere;
[link to forthcoming interview with E.J. Koh];
Poems have appeared in Poetry Daily, Waxwing, Puerto del Sol;
Recent Zephyr titles have won or been finalists for National Book Critics Circle Award, PEN Poetry in Translation Award, National Translation Award, Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award.
Author Bio
Yi Won is a South Korean avant-garde poet and essayist, born in 1968 in Gyeonggi-do. She studied Creative Writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts and earned her masters degree at the Graduate School of Culture and Arts at Dongguk University. Her poetry debuted in 1992, and she received the Contemporary Poetics Award (2002), Contemporary Poetry Award (2005), Opening the World with Poetry Award (2014), The Beginning Award (2014), The Equity Literature Award (2018), and the Poet Town Literary Award (2018). Her books include When They Ruled the Earth (1996), A Thousand Moons Rising Over the River of Yahoo! (2001), The Worlds Lightest Motorcycle (2007), The History of an Impossible Page (2012), Let Love be Born (2017), and I Am My Affectionate Zebra (2018). Yi Won is currently a visiting professor at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. She lives in Seoul, South Korea.
