Bred from the Eyes of a Wolf by Kim Kyung Ju and translated by Jake Levine

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Bred from the Eyes of a Wolf by Kim Kyung Ju translated by Jake Levine is published by Plays Inverse Press. This is a Book originally written in Korean. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780999724743E12.

Bred from the Eyes of a Wolf, by Kim Kyung Ju and translated by Jake Levine, is a Korean poetry collection that arrives already animal, watchful, and half-feral. The title suggests a speaker born not from lineage or family, but from looking: from predatory attention, nocturnal perception, the eye as a place of inheritance. Kim Kyung Ju’s work often feels theatrical and volatile, and Levine’s translations have helped carry that intensity into English. I would read this book for its appetite for transformation. It does not sound interested in gentle self-expression. It sounds interested in what happens when the self becomes creaturely, urban, fevered, and difficult to house. For readers drawn to contemporary poetry with darkness, velocity, and animal intelligence, this is a compelling entry.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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