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Author(s)
Lee Sumyeong이수명
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Translator(s)
Colin LeemarshallColin Leemarshall
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Publisher
Black OceanBlack Ocean
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Country
CANADA
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Language
English(English)
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Year Published
2024
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Category
Poetry 시
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Target User
Adult 성인
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Period
Contemporary 현대
Description 작품 소개
Poems that break with traditional syntax and disrupt our perceptions of how language works in this first collection in English of poems by one of South Korea's most established contemporary poets and critics.
These poems build strikingly on the breakthroughs of Korean forebears like Yi Sang and Oh Kyu-won. They also establish Lee as an interlocutor in a wider conversation: her problematized "repetitions" chime with and against those of Gertrude Stein and Leslie Scalapino, while her refiguring of the mundane reads like a darkly inverted congener to that of Alfred Starr Hamilton. Marked by a distinctive voice and approach, Just Like introduces a brilliant and singular contemporary Korean writer into English.
The poems of Lee Sumyeong's Just Like evince a striking tension between clarity and complexity. Purged of any heightened diction or preciously wrought syntax, Lee's writing can give the impression of being austere to the point of crystallinity. But it is the opposite-a teeming space where concrete objects become unstable and where simple propositions constantly buckle and fissure.
Reference
Black Ocean. "Jusk Like", https://www.blackocean.org/catalog1/just-like. accessed 31 May 2024.
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