Interrogation Room [Paperback]

In?Interrogation Room, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs's second collection, poems that restore redacted speech and traverse forbidden borders suture together divided bodies, geographies, and kinships to confront the unending Korean War's legacies of forced distances and militarized silences. Kwon Dobbs powerfully entwines uneasy, tentative reconciliations among South Korea's relatives in the North, her birth family in the South, and the transnational diaspora to which she belongs to resist the war's deprivations of language and imagination.ReadingsSioux Falls, SD, Frostburg, MD, Pittsburgh, PA, Greensburg, PA, New York, NY, Tampa, FL , Minneapolis, MNAdvance review copies to major print and online media. Social media campaign including the authors website.Major push to market for human interest stories within the Korean adoption community and other regional and national mediaco-op availablereading tourHow to connect to the past, imagined, researched, and lived? This is the question that Kwon Dobbs asks in her haunting new book.Jennifer Kwon Dobbs is also the author of Paper Pavilion (White Pine Press Poetry Prize 2007) and the chapbook Notes from a Missing Person (Essay Press 2015). Her work appears in Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, Jubilat, and elsewhere.An innovative tour-de-force book of poetry exploring the dual conflict between North and South Korea as well as that of an Adoptee in search of and finding her birth mother.CONTENTSI confess I traveled | 8Here are notes rolled into plugs | 9Insert children into crates | 10Take young men as coal miners | 11The Origins Inside Kim Dae Shik | 12A Forest in Jeju, Southern Korea | 14Northern Korea Postcards | 16Reading Keith Wilsons The Girl | 22Birthfather | 24This | 25///Notes from a Missing Person | 30///Parasitic Twin | 45  ? ? ? | 51///White Horse | 55A House in Nicosia | 56A Small Guest | 58Moon Jar | 60Fox | 61Birdsong for Ten Thousand Years | 62Beetle | 63Yi Sangs Room | 65///Birthmother | 69Note Left at a U.S. CamptolsÏ