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The Night Is Long and Painful

Author

Park Yeonjun

Publisher

Alma

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #Frida Kahlo
  • #poet's essay
  • #series of poems immersed in print

Copyright Contact

Yoo Seungjae

  • Publication Date

    2018-05-07
  • No. of pages

    212
  • ISBN

    979-11-5992-145-2 03810
  • Dimensions

    134 * 195
Overview

This book is a record of poet Park Yeonjun's poetic thinking on the art and love of Frida Kahlo, the Mexican painter who lived an "endlessly tumbling life" full of pain and wounds, which led her to create works "a much darker red than blood."

Book Intro

Frida Kahlo's love and art are "a much darker red than blood."

 

Frida Kahlo's immortal paintings and the poet's variation

A beautiful conversation between two artists

 

The Night Is Long and Painful is the fourth book in the essay series of poems immersed in print that feature poems and drawings. This book is a record of poet Park Yeonjun's poetic thinking on the art and love of Frida Kahlo, the Mexican painter who lived an "endlessly tumbling life" full of pain and wounds, which led her to create works "a much darker red than blood."

 

The poet walks into Frida's poetic paintings and reads the artist's state of mind, which has yet to be transformed into the paintings, and explores the true nature of Kahlo's love for Diego Rivera by ruminating on Kahlo’s language from her diary and letters. The poet, in an infinitely pungent and warm style, tells readers about the "love" that she needed to survive her pain, which had destroyed her thousands of times, and her works that eventually survived the destruction. The poet hovers between the inside of Frida's works and the reality to which she belongs and confesses her private feelings that are trivial but candid, and also absurd but humorous.

 

The writer Jeong Yeo Wul says, "If Frida Kahlo had read this book, she would have been greatly pleased. It would be like her meeting a genuine soulmate all the way from Korea, a country she can get to from her mother country of Mexico by flying halfway around the globe, transcending the gap of time and space, through this book."

About the Author

Park Yeonjun



(English) Park Yeonjun was born in Seoul in 1980. She graduated from Dongduk Women’s University with a creative writing major and made her literary debut when she won the Jungang New Writer Award with her poem “Give Me Ice” in 2004. Her works include collections of poems such as A Scream that Eyelashes Make, Father Called Me Sister-In-Law, Venus Pudica, and Night, Rain, and Snake. She has also written collections of essays such as Turmoil, We Walked Talking to Each Other “Watch Out,” Read as My Morning Greeting, Life Goes Weird, and X Month, X Day. She has also written the children’s story Honestly No Idea.

 

(Japanese) 2004年中央新人文学賞に詩『氷をください』が入選し、デビュー。詩集『まつげの悲鳴』、『父は私を義妹と呼んだ』、『ベヌス・プディカ』、『夜、雨、蛇』、散文集『騒動』、『私たちはお互いに気をつけろと言いながら歩いた』、『朝の挨拶代わりに読んでください』、『夜は長く、苦しいです』、『人生はおかしく流れる』、『某月某日』、『書く気持ち』、童話『本当なのに知らないそうです』を出版。

 

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