The World's Lightest Motorcycle

The World's Lightest Motorcycle

Bilingual edition

Paperback (30 Dec 2021) | English,Korean

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Publisher's Synopsis

  • A major avant-garde feminist poet and essayist, and a "successor" to Kim Hyesoon ("Autobiography of Death") and other groundbreaking Korean feminist poets;
  • Bilingual (Korean and English) on facing pages;
  • Blurbs by Don Mee Choi and Joyelle McSweeney;
  • Yi Won featured at the 2020 Berlin Poetry Festival, and has won numerous awards in South Korea;
  • Translators' awards: Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello won the AWP Donald Hall Prize, Florida Book Award Bronze Medal, Milt Kessler Poetry Award finalist¬; E. J. Koh won the Pleiades Editors Prize for Poetry, Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence;
  • E. J. Koh's new memoir "The Magical Language of Others" (Tin House, 2020) received rave reviews in Shelf Awareness (starred review), San Francisco Chronicle, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Seattle International Examiner, World Literature Today, and elsewhere;
  • [link to forthcoming interview with E.J. Koh];
  • Poems have appeared in Poetry Daily, Waxwing, Puerto del Sol;
  • Recent Zephyr titles have won or been finalists for National Book Critics Circle Award, PEN Poetry in Translation Award, National Translation Award, Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award.
  • Book information

    ISBN: 9781938890840
    Publisher: Zephyr Press
    Imprint: Zephyr Press
    Pub date:
    Edition: Bilingual edition
    DEWEY: 895.715
    DEWEY edition: 23
    Language: English,Korean
    Number of pages: 128
    Weight: 140g
    Height: 140mm
    Width: 189mm
    Spine width: 9mm