In this extraordinary, passionate debut poetry collection, Jimin Seo takes up a material we think we recognize - language - and transforms it through permutation, history, and translation into a lyrical and alien terrain. Seo takes up both Korean and English, drawing them across multiple experiences of relation - none of them equivalence. Translation and re-translation triangulate to form the ghostly third other which defines every relationship of two. Fragmentation, riff, homophony, and analogy sprawl like cuttings from a plant, yielding poems that grow in defiant new directions. This is a book calling to a mother, a teacher, lovers, and ultimately a self whose elements materialise through language, even as the speaker laments what language cannot be or hold.
| ISBN: | 9781068644627 |
| Publication date: | 16th November 2024 |
| Author: | Jimin Seo |
| Publisher: | the87press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 130 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets LGBTQ+ Studies / topics Translation and interpretation Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss Narrative theme: Interior life Narrative theme: Identity / belonging |