Fifteen Seconds Without Sorrow by Po-Son Sim and translated by Brother Anthony, Un-Gwi Chong, Eun-Gwi Chung

This is poetry from Korea, Republic of.

Fifteen Seconds Without Sorrow by Po-Son Sim translated by Brother Anthony, Un-Gwi Chong, Eun-Gwi Chung is published by Parlor Press. This is a Book originally written in Korean. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781602358355E12.

Fifteen Seconds Without Sorrow, by Po-Son Sim and translated by Brother Anthony, Un-Gwi Chong, Eun-Gwi Chung from Korean, brings Korean-language poetry connected to Korea, Republic of into English through Korean sorrow compressed into brief time, where fifteen seconds can hold a whole weather front. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for sorrow, breath, moment, and the small duration in which grief becomes almost measurable, not as a fixed lesson about Korea, Republic of. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Fifteen Seconds Without Sorrow belongs in the translated poetry library because it offers a Korean lyric of pressure, restraint, and feeling that does not over-explain itself.

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