Book record
Beating on Iron
Soo-Bok Kim
Translated from Korean by Brother Anthony of Taizé
Beating on Iron, by Soo-Bok Kim and translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé, has a title that feels percussive before it becomes descriptive. Iron suggests labor, hardness, industry, punishment, endurance. Beating on it suggests rhythm, protest, craft, and the stubborn refusal to let a material remain mute. In this Korean poetry collection, I would expect the emotional force to come from pressure placed on ordinary things until they begin to sound. Brother Anthony’s translation gives English-language readers access to a poet whose work may move between personal feeling and larger social resonance without announcing every turn. This seems like a book for readers who like poems with weight in the hand: not airy lyricism, but hammered music, repetition, and the dignity of difficult making.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Green Integer
- Language
- Korean
- Country
- Korea, Republic of
- ISBN
- 9781557134301