Grasshoppers’ Eyes by Ko Hyeong-Ryeol and translated by Brother Anthony of Taize, Lee Hyung-Jin

This is poetry from Korea, Republic of.

Grasshoppers’ Eyes by Ko Hyeong-Ryeol translated by Brother Anthony of Taize, Lee Hyung-Jin is published by Parlor Press. This is a Book originally written in Korean. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78160235942E12.

Grasshoppers’ Eyes, by Ko Hyeong-Ryeol and translated by Brother Anthony of Taize, Lee Hyung-Jin from Korean, brings Korean-language poetry connected to Korea, Republic of into English through Korean natural attention, insect sight, and the defamiliarizing intelligence of looking from below. 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 grasshoppers, eyes, field, and the altered scale that makes ordinary life suddenly strange, 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. Grasshoppers’ Eyes belongs in the translated poetry library because it brings Korean poetry into English through perception, humility, and ecological oddness.

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