Book record
The Postman
Mun Dok-su
Translated from Korean by Brother Anthony of Taize
The Postman, by Mun Dok-su and translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé, is a Korean poetry collection that seems to circle the act of delivery. A postman carries messages but does not necessarily belong to them. He moves between houses, between senders and receivers, between solitude and contact. I would read this book through that figure of mediated intimacy: what does it mean to carry language for others? What happens to a life spent near messages that may never be for you? Brother Anthony’s translation likely gives the poems a direct, accessible presence in English. The title suggests a book of roads, thresholds, letters, and ordinary ritual. Its quiet strength may lie in reminding us that communication is not only speech. It is also labor, waiting, and passage.
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Poetic Matrix Press
- Language
- Korean
- Country
- Korea, Republic of
- ISBN
- 9780982427699