Book record
Wild apple
Hŭi-dŏk Na
Translated from Korean by Daniel Parker, YoungShil Ji
Wild Apple, by Na Hŭi-dŏk and translated by Daniel Parker and YoungShil Ji, is a Korean poetry collection that suggests fruit before cultivation, sweetness before domestication. A wild apple is still recognizable, but it belongs partly to weather, chance, and the ungoverned world. Na’s work often carries ecological and emotional delicacy, and this title seems to offer a way into poems that balance tenderness with a tougher natural intelligence. I would read the apple not as a simple symbol, but as a test of attention: what does it mean for something to be edible, beautiful, resistant, and untended? The translators bring that Korean lyric field into English with enough room for quietness. This seems like a book for readers interested in nature, memory, and the ethics of noticing.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- White Pine
- Language
- Korean
- Country
- Korea, Republic of
- ISBN
- 9781935210733