![]() “I didn’t set out thinking that I’m going to write a book that centralizes on the voices of comfort women of the Japanese empire. She wrote most of the poems in the book during her master’s degree program at New York University, where she studied creative writing. One of Yoon’s favorite poems in the book is about her grandmother’s experience during the Korean War. Yoon, who grew up in Canada and studied in the US after immigrating from South Korea, connects her personal experiences as a female Asian immigrant with the experiences of comfort women in her frank, yet deep and piercing, poems. ![]() 14 with the full English version included in the back, Yoon sees her purpose as not to inform, as many Koreans are familiar with the history, but to continue the voice so that the history is not forgotten. With the publication of the Korean translation of the book Aug. ![]() ![]() When writer Emily Jungmin Yoon released her 2018 book of poems “A Cruelty Special to Our Species,” it was to inform North American readers about the “comfort women,” a euphemistic term for military sex slaves of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. ![]() “A Cruelty Special to Our Species” author Emily Jungmin Yoon (Yolimwon) ![]()
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