We, Day by Day by Eun Young Jin and translated by Daniel Parker

This is poetry from Korea, Republic of.

We, Day by Day by Eun Young Jin translated by Daniel Parker is published by White Pine Press. This is a Book originally written in Korean. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781945680113E12.

We, Day by Day, by Eun Young Jin and translated by Daniel Parker, is a Korean poetry collection whose title is beautifully modest. The “we” matters. This is not simply a private lyric self announcing its loneliness; it suggests relation, shared endurance, companionship, or collective passage through ordinary time. “Day by day” can sound resigned, but it can also be a method of survival. I would read this book for its attention to gradual feeling: how lives accumulate in increments, how intimacy is built through repeated days, how memory attaches itself to small continuities. Parker’s translation gives English-language readers access to a poetry of steadiness rather than spectacle. The collection seems useful for readers who want contemporary Korean poems attentive to shared life, quiet change, and the ordinary ethics of continuing.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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