Poetic imagery hint at emotional turmoil underneath a restrained surface, in these poems translated from Korean
By Byung-rul Lee and Soyoung Park for Translation Tuesdays by Asymptote, part of the Guardian Books Network
In a society where emotional restraint is prized, interactions can all of a sudden grow stilted or become suffused with a great silence as disappointment sinks in. In these exemplary poems by Korean poet Byung-rul Lee, tone and imagery hint at the emotional tumult hidden underneath the surface.
—Lee Yew Leong, Editor-in-Chief, Asymptote
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