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Just Like
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Series: Moon Country
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ISBN13: 9781939568755
Publisher: Black Ocean
Published: May 7 2024
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD
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.
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