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LEE YOUNG JU et al / 이영주 / 2020 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Poetry > 21st century poetry

Times like this are no good. They’re too distant from the root cause. I think I was a weaver in a factory a hundred years ago. Maybe a handweaver for hire a thousand years ago. I’m now weaving things that aren’t easily woven. Language? What language? I fail each time. When I fail, I can feel a faint presence of the roots . . . . From “Poet’s Note” Lee Young-ju writes as a citizen and a poet, about what has happened and the pain that is ongoing; this peculiar blend of subjects and perspectives have become her means of finding certainty. She isn’t satisfied with recording the event and despair as-is; she excavates the brutality that lies within the “as-is,” while recognizing that no words can adequately describe what she sees. From “Commentary”   Source : http://www.kyobobook.co.kr/product/detailViewKor.laf?mallGb=KOR&ejkGb=KOR&barcode=9791156624943&orderClick=JAj

LEE YOUNG JU et al / 이영주 / 2021 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Poetry > 21st century poetry

Cold Candies encapsulate the saccharine strangeness of a woman’s life. Fragments of narratives about girls, dolls, sisters, mothers, men, lizards, the moon, and pillows are brought together into otherworldly images that are devastating, yet familiar. Lee Young-ju is one of South Korea’s most original minds, and this collection, curated and translated by National Endowment of Arts Fellow Jae Kim, features a selection from her extraordinary body of work. These prose poems are often self-portraits, and together, they are as much an account of her life as it is an attempt to understand it. Pulling out threads from her past, she examines its traumas and tragedies and unravels a haunting dreamscape of intimacy and kinship. Source : https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Candies-Moon-Country-Young-ju/dp/1939568404