How to Make a Mink Coat by Hanyong Jeong and translated by Seth Feldman

This is poetry from Korea, Republic of.

How to Make a Mink Coat by Hanyong Jeong translated by Seth Feldman is published by Xlibris Corp. This is a Book originally written in Korean. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781514442579E12.

How to Make a Mink Coat, by Hanyong Jeong and translated by Seth Feldman, has the kind of title that makes me suspicious in the best way. It sounds instructional, almost domestic or commercial, but poetry rarely gives directions without smuggling in a stranger problem. In this Korean collection, the mink coat may become an object of beauty, class, violence, animal life, desire, or absurd social performance. I would read the book by paying attention to how material things behave: what they reveal about the body, about wanting, about the economies hidden inside elegance. Feldman’s translation has to let the title’s oddness remain odd rather than reducing it to metaphor too quickly. This seems like a sharp, object-minded book for readers who enjoy poems with sly surfaces.

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