Book record
Bred from the Eyes of a Wolf
Kim Kyung Ju
Translated from Korean by Jake Levine
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.
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Plays Inverse Press
- Language
- Korean
- Country
- Korea, Republic of
- ISBN
- 9780999724743