Book record
Ah_Mouthless Things
Lee Seong-Bok
Translated from Korean by Brother Anthony of Taize
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.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Green Integer
- Language
- Korean
- Country
- Korea, Republic of
- ISBN
- 9781557134400