{"product_id":"just-like-9781939568755","title":"Just Like","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoems that break with traditional syntax and disrupt our perceptions of how language works in this first collection in English of poems by one of South Korea's most established contemporary poets and critics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems build strikingly on the breakthroughs of Korean forebears like Yi Sang and Oh Kyu-won. They also establish Lee as an interlocutor in a wider conversation: her problematized \"repetitions\" chime with and against those of Gertrude Stein and Leslie Scalapino, while her refiguring of the mundane reads like a darkly inverted congener to that of Alfred Starr Hamilton. Marked by a distinctive voice and approach, \u003ci\u003eJust Like\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a brilliant and singular contemporary Korean writer into English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems of Lee Sumyeong's \u003ci\u003eJust Like\u003c\/i\u003e evince a striking tension between clarity and complexity. Purged of any heightened diction or preciously wrought syntax, Lee's writing can give the impression of being austere to the point of crystallinity. But it is the opposite-a teeming space where concrete objects become unstable and where simple propositions constantly buckle and fissure. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLee Sumyeong\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Seoul in 1965. She is the author of eight poetry collections in Korean as well as numerous critical writings and books on poetics. In addition, she has translated several texts into Korean, including books on Romanticism, Lacan, Derrida, and Joyce.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColin Leemarshall\u003c\/b\u003e lives in South Korea. He runs the print-on-demand press Erotoplasty Editions, which sells innovative and idiosyncratic books of poetry at cost price.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Black Ocean","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50499351544082,"sku":"9781939568755","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6f040390-bfbc-4d27-aac4-16e2b51b4dbb.jpg?v=1730742848","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/just-like-9781939568755","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}