What happens when desire becomes a doorway to identity?
In lesbi-honest: a Korean adoptee becoming, Nicole Hyomin Kim delivers a deeply intimate poetry collection exploring queer desire, adoption, motherhood, reunion, grief, trauma, and self-reclamation. Written with raw emotional precision and lyrical vulnerability, these poems trace one woman’s journey toward sovereignty after decades of disconnection from body, history, and self.
Blending sensuality with philosophical reflection, Kim examines the emotional landscapes of lesbian love, late discovery, chosen family, heartbreak, longing, and belonging. Her work moves fluidly between erotic intimacy and adoptee grief, asking what it means to truly be witnessed — by lovers, by family, and ultimately by oneself.
At the center of the collection is the experience of becoming: becoming visible, becoming embodied, becoming whole. Through minimalist yet emotionally expansive poetry, Kim explores the lingering effects of rupture and the transformative possibilities of reunion, healing, and queer self-authorship.
Tender, searching, and emotionally fearless, lesbi-honest is a collection for readers of contemporary poetry, queer literature, feminist writing, adoptee narratives, and deeply personal works that refuse erasure.
Thank you for being interested in my work. I strive to make my work accessible to all. I have been through times where finding $19 (the cost of the book plus shipping) is something that could only be scrounged up in a budget with extreme shifting and problem solving. I admire the tenacity and creativity of this ability in people and nobody needs to be doing all that just to get a copy of my book.
I have since moved beyond those days and want to pay it forward. I know many in this community are in a similar position, and I am grateful you would consider sponsoring a copy of the book to be fulfilled for someone on the subsidy waiting list. Community and connection are the structures for love to exist. We need more love in the world right now. Please consider sponsorship and sharing a part of your story in a note that will accompany your sponsorship. Notes will be anonymized at the time of shipping.
Thank you so much for allowing this work to exist and participating in this radical journey. 정말 고마워요.
What happens when desire becomes a doorway to identity?
In lesbi-honest: a Korean adoptee becoming, Nicole Hyomin Kim delivers a deeply intimate poetry collection exploring queer desire, adoption, motherhood, reunion, grief, trauma, and self-reclamation. Written with raw emotional precision and lyrical vulnerability, these poems trace one woman’s journey toward sovereignty after decades of disconnection from body, history, and self.
Blending sensuality with philosophical reflection, Kim examines the emotional landscapes of lesbian love, late discovery, chosen family, heartbreak, longing, and belonging. Her work moves fluidly between erotic intimacy and adoptee grief, asking what it means to truly be witnessed — by lovers, by family, and ultimately by oneself.
At the center of the collection is the experience of becoming: becoming visible, becoming embodied, becoming whole. Through minimalist yet emotionally expansive poetry, Kim explores the lingering effects of rupture and the transformative possibilities of reunion, healing, and queer self-authorship.
Tender, searching, and emotionally fearless, lesbi-honest is a collection for readers of contemporary poetry, queer literature, feminist writing, adoptee narratives, and deeply personal works that refuse erasure.
Thank you for being interested in my work. I strive to make my work accessible to all. I have been through times where finding $19 (the cost of the book plus shipping) is something that could only be scrounged up in a budget with extreme shifting and problem solving. I admire the tenacity and creativity of this ability in people and nobody needs to be doing all that just to get a copy of my book.
I have since moved beyond those days and want to pay it forward. I know many in this community are in a similar position, and I am grateful you would consider sponsoring a copy of the book to be fulfilled for someone on the subsidy waiting list. Community and connection are the structures for love to exist. We need more love in the world right now. Please consider sponsorship and sharing a part of your story in a note that will accompany your sponsorship. Notes will be anonymized at the time of shipping.
Thank you so much for allowing this work to exist and participating in this radical journey. 정말 고마워요.
