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Pirowa Padowa

Pirowa Padowa
Author
Co-Author
-
Translator
Archana Madhavan
Publisher
Saturnalia Books
Published Year
2025
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Poetry > 21st century poetry

Original Title
아마도 아프리카
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
amado apeurika
ISBN
9781947817906
Page
95
Volume
-
Lee Jenny
  • Lee Jenny
  • Birth : 1972 ~ -
  • Occupation : Poet
  • First Name : Jenny
  • Family Name : Lee
  • Korean Name : 이제니
  • ISNI : -
  • Works : 3
No. Call No. Location Status Due Date Reservation
1 영어 811 이제니 아-Mad LTI Korea Library Not Available 2026-07-20 Place a hold
Descriptions
  • English(English)

From award-winning South Korean poet Lee Jenny, and translated for the first time into English, comes a collection that takes the reader on a journey through a fantastical linguistic landscape exploring the existential yearning and passions of youth through lively wordplay. These fifty-six poems probe universal, yet complex human emotions—from alienation and disappointment to triumph and resolve—whose ever-shifting gradients are difficult to contain within standard language. Instead, Lee sheds conventional grammar and syntax and makes use of repetition, rhythm, alliteration, and other sonic devices to stretch one’s notions of language and introduce infinite possibilities of meaning. Indeed the title of the collection, PIROWA PADOWA, transliterated from the Korean, expands beyond its definition and serves as an onamatopoeia for the ebb and flow of Lee’s poetic language. In these poems, Lee juxtaposes real-world locations like Peru and Africa with imaginary lands like Kariponia, populating them with indefinable creatures that speak in neologisms—in doing so, she asks us to abandon preconceived notions of any specific place or word to arrive at our own interpretations.

source:https://www.amazon.com/Pirowa-Padowa-Lee-Jenny/dp/1947817906

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