Book record
Just Like
Lee Sumyeong
Translated from Korean by Colin Leemarshall
Just Like, by Lee Sumyeong, is a poetry collection from South Korea, translated by Colin Leemarshall, published by Black Ocean Press. It is a Korean collection by Lee Sumyeong that makes resemblance, repetition, and almost-sameness feel formally alive. The phrase 'just like' seems casual, but in poetry it becomes a hinge between perception and error, likeness and displacement. I would read this first for the pressure of image and cadence rather than as a puzzle waiting for its correct answer. The useful description for a book like this should give the reader a door, not a lecture: enough context to orient the shelf, then enough mystery to let the poems keep their own weather. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from South Korea. It shows how poetry in translation can carry local speech, private intensity, and literary history into English without becoming merely informational.
- Publisher
- Black Ocean Press
- Language
- Korean
- Country
- South Korea