Description
The shadow of mothering has never been given a richer, fuller, more debased vision than in Youna Kwak's For This and Other Cruelties. Kwak casts a cold eye on the splendid and cruel intransigence of maternal paradoxes in all their impossible double binds, monstrous pleasures, and profane mystifications. Shifting between lyric and prose poems, this collection throws slanted light on the ineffability of our deepest attachments, envisioning a world where mother is "a creature whose only enemy could be human." Kwak brings us face to face with the irreconcilable facts of being mother, mothered, and alive.
Author: Youna Kwak
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 09/22/2025
Pages: 114
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781685970284
ISBN10: 1685970281
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Family
Author: Youna Kwak
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 09/22/2025
Pages: 114
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781685970284
ISBN10: 1685970281
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Family
About the Author
Youna Kwak is author of sur vie, and has been published in Po&sie, The Los Angeles Review, The Hopkins Review, Chicago Review, The Offing, La Traductière, Oversound, jubilat, Boston Review, and Action, Spectacle. She lives in Los Angeles, California.