Book record
Someone Always in the Corner of My Eye
BoSeon Shim
Translated from Korean by YoungShil Ji
Someone Always in the Corner of My Eye, by Shim BoSeon and translated by YoungShil Ji, has a title full of peripheral anxiety. The figure is not directly seen, but also not absent. It remains in the corner, just enough to alter how the speaker moves through the world. In this Korean poetry collection, I would expect poems of surveillance, memory, desire, urban unease, or private haunting. The phrase also feels tender: someone is always there, maybe as companion, maybe as threat, maybe as the self one cannot quite face. Ji’s translation brings that ambiguity into English, where the title already does impressive work. This seems like a collection for readers interested in contemporary poems that make attention itself unstable, where what matters most may be what cannot be looked at directly.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- White Pine Press
- Language
- Korean
- Country
- Korea, Republic of
- ISBN
- 9781935210900