I Must Be the Wind by Moon Chung-hee and translated by Claire You, Richard Silberg

This is poetry from Korea, Republic of.

I Must Be the Wind by Moon Chung-hee translated by Claire You, Richard Silberg is published by White Pine Press. This is a Book originally written in Korean. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935210603E12.

I Must Be the Wind, by Moon Chung-hee and translated by Claire You, Richard Silberg from Korean, brings Korean-language poetry connected to Korea, Republic of into English through Korean lyric movement, wind, and the self imagined as force rather than fixed identity. 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 wind, motion, longing, and the desire to become less trapped by the body’s outline, 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. I Must Be the Wind belongs in the translated poetry library because it adds a Korean voice of mobility, tenderness, and elemental self-making.

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