Woman on the Terrace

Woman on the Terrace

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Moon Chung-hee AG Seong-kon Kim. Woman on the Terrace. Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press; 2007.

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Moon is a poet of wild nature, vigorous energy, and sparking passion. Moon’s short lyrical poems represent poignant self-examination, evoking moments of bewilderment and hopeful resignation to the passage of time and imprisoning conditions of her life. She invites the reader along the tracks of a married woman’s life as she traveres her rite of initiation into maturity. Her work explores the desire to escape the fetters of domesticity as a vehicle for understanding a woman’s journey and her negotiations between the desire for freedom and domestic reality provides the context for longing in her poetry.