Human Time
Selected Poems
Haengsook Kim author Soeun Seo translator Susan K translator Hannah Quinn Hertzog translator Joanne Park translator Soohyun Yang translator Lo-Thomas Brylowski translator Jake Levine editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Black Ocean
Published:18th May '23
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First English-language collection from a leading poet in South Korea.
Kim Haengsook is one South Korea’s most eminent contemporary poets, but a complete collection of her poems has never appeared in English before now. This selection draws on her work across her career and five books in Korean. Haengsook's poetic spaces are shrouded in a magic fog that is clarifying instead of obscuring. Built out of a language that incorporates a strategy of what she calls "precise ambiguity," her work radiates outward like great waves whose philosophical rhythm you can't help but get caught in.
"Chosen by the poet from books she has published during the past two decades, Human Time spans the voices the poet has engaged with. Whether in the sky or underground, vanishing staircase or field trip . . . the urgency of what is being said is the music we have been longing to hear. As the poet tells us: 'Time, we’re always in the thick of it.' I think we would be derelict if we did not join her there." –John Yau
ISBN: 9781939568694
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120 pages