One Day, Then Another by Kwang Ku Kim and translated by Young-Shil Cho

This is poetry from Korea, Republic of.

One Day, Then Another by Kwang Ku Kim translated by Young-Shil Cho 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 9.781935210542E12.

One Day, Then Another, by Kim Kwang-Ku and translated by Young-Shil Cho, has a title that honors continuation. Nothing grand is promised: one day, then another. Yet that modest sequence is often where poetry does its deepest work, in the ordinary repetitions that become memory, fatigue, grace, or survival. In this Korean poetry collection, I would read for the texture of daily life rather than a dramatic arc. The title suggests patience, almost a calendar stripped down to breath. Cho’s translation gives English-language readers access to a poet whose work may move through quiet observation and emotional increment. This seems like a book for readers who trust that meaning does not always arrive as revelation. Sometimes it arrives by staying with the same life one more day.

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