Ah_Mouthless Things by Lee Seong-Bok and translated by Brother Anthony of Taize

This is poetry from Korea, Republic of.

Ah_Mouthless Things by Lee Seong-Bok translated by Brother Anthony of Taize is published by Green Integer. This is a Book originally written in Korean. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.7815571344E12.

Ah_Mouthless Things, by Lee Seong-Bok and translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé, is a Korean poetry collection whose title feels like a small wound in language. The “ah” is sound before statement, while “mouthless things” suggests presences that cannot speak, or are not allowed to. Lee’s work often carries philosophical weight, but this title gives that thinking a bodily ache. I would read the book as an encounter with what remains just outside articulation: grief, silence, history, interior pressure. Brother Anthony’s translations have brought a wide range of Korean poets into English, and here his work likely serves a poetry of restraint and resonance. The collection seems best suited to readers who are willing to sit with the difficulty of feeling before it has become explanation.

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