Liking in Silence by Sa-In Kim and translated by Brother Anthony of Taize, Susan Hwang

This is poetry from Korea, Republic of.

Liking in Silence by Sa-In Kim translated by Brother Anthony of Taize, Susan Hwang is published by White Pine Press. This is a Book originally written in Korean. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781945680342E12.

Liking in Silence, by Sa-In Kim and translated by Brother Anthony of Taize, Susan Hwang from Korean, brings Korean-language poetry connected to Korea, Republic of into English through Korean inwardness, affection withheld, and the quiet ethics of feeling that does not need performance. 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 silence, liking, restraint, and the emotional intelligence of what remains unsaid, 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. Liking in Silence belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives Korean poetry a patient, intimate mode of attention and nearly hidden warmth.

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