Walking on a washing line by Sŭng-hŭi Kim and translated by Lee Hyung-Jin Brother Anthony of Taizé

This is poetry from Korea, Republic of.

Walking on a washing line by Sŭng-hŭi Kim translated by Lee Hyung-Jin Brother Anthony of Taizé is published by East Asia Program Cornell University. This is a Book originally written in Korean. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781933947501E12.

Walking on a Washing Line, by Kim Sŭng-hŭi and translated by Lee Hyung-Jin and Brother Anthony of Taizé, is a Korean poetry collection whose title turns domestic labor into acrobatics. A washing line is practical, ordinary, maybe almost invisible, but walking on it suggests balance, risk, performance, and absurdity. That image feels especially rich for poems that might move through gendered labor, private life, and the fragile poise required to survive ordinary days. I would read this book as work that makes the everyday precarious without stripping it of humor. The translation has to keep both the plainness of the object and the strangeness of the act. This seems like a collection for readers interested in how the domestic can become aerial, philosophical, and quietly dangerous.

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