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Ghost Poet : An interview with the Korean poet Kim Kyung Ju

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Article
https://www.bostonreview.net/poetry/jake-levine-ghost-poet-kim-kyung-ju
Journal
Boston Review
Issued Date
March 04, 2014
Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED STATES
City
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Book
I Am a Season That Does Not Exist in the World
Writer
Kim Kyung Ju
Translator
Jake Levine

About the Author

  • Kim Kyung Ju
  • Birth : - ~ Unknown
  • Occupation : Poet
  • First Name : Kyung Ju
  • Family Name : Kim
  • Korean Name : 김경주
  • ISNI : 000000002651588X
  • Works : 7
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  • English(English)

Kim Kyung Ju's poetry operates on the threshold where “the living are born in the dead people's world, and the dead are born in the living,” a world where no one seems to belong. Destructive forces like social isolation and disease are often transformed into gateways to the sublime—zones of verisimilitude, where human action takes on the mythic and chaotic quality of nature, and in turn, nature acquires human fragility. Hence the title of his first collection, I Am a Season That Does Not Exist in the World. Perhaps it is this conflation of human agency and natural order that has led some critics to call Kim's poems “both a blessing and a curse to Korean literature.”   Source: https://www.bostonreview.net/poetry/jake-levine-ghost-poet-kim-kyung-ju

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