Book record
A Letter Not Sent
Jeong Ho-seung
Translated from Korean by Brother Anthony of Taize
A Letter Not Sent, by Jeong Ho-seung and translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé, carries a title built from restraint. A letter not sent is still language, still address, still desire, but it remains suspended between speaker and recipient. In this Korean poetry collection, I would expect intimacy to arrive through what is withheld as much as what is declared. Jeong’s work often reads with accessible emotional clarity, and Brother Anthony’s translations tend to preserve that directness without overburdening it. This seems like a book for readers who want poems of feeling that do not require elaborate machinery to touch them. The unsent letter is a beautiful poetic device because it keeps hope and impossibility in the same envelope. The book likely lives in that tension.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Seoul Selection
- Language
- Korean
- Country
- Korea, Republic of
- ISBN
- 9781624120756