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Instances

Title Sub
selected poems
Author
Jeongrye Choi
Co-Author
-
Translator
Brenda Hillman,Wayne de Fremery,Jeongrye Choi
Publisher
Parlor Press
Published Year
2011
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Complete Collection > Library > Complete Collection (individual)

Original Title
최정례 시선
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Choejeongnye siseon
ISBN
9781602352346
Page
143
Volume
-
Writer default image
  • Choi Jeongrye
  • Birth : 1955 ~ 2021
  • Occupation : Poet
  • First Name : Jeongrye
  • Family Name : Choi
  • Korean Name : 최정례
  • ISNI : 0000000356844088
  • Works : 4
No. Call No. Location Status Due Date Reservation
1 영어 811 최정례 최-브 LTI Korea Library Not Available - -
2 영어 811 최정례 최-브 LTI Korea Library Available - -
Descriptions
  • English(English)

One of Korea's most exacting and innovative poets, JEONGRYE CHOI writes a poetry that uncovers the strangeness of everyday experience. Alert and streetwise, but tuned into the undercurrent of things, Choi's poetry creates environments at once familiar but dreamlike, marked by a preternatural clarity. Favoring imagistic condensation and formal trimness, Choi's poetry possesses a highly-suggestive, allusive intensity that locates the startling within the familiar. Always rooted in the here-and-now, Choi's speakers are simultaneously outside it, questioning the propriety of our taken-for-granted arrangements. Delicate and wistful, this poetry has the tensile strength to address itself to the deepest challenges of human experience: as Choi writes, with characteristic (and deceptive) off-handedness, "hey abyss." In a world of inconstancy and ceaseless transformation, Choi's poetry forgoes easy consolations and instead offers poetry of the highest order as the only consolation. Reading it offers an almost vertiginous sense of the variousness of experience. As Brenda Hillman observes, "There is a quality of imagination in her work that is still a rare thing in poetry."



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