- Overview
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A Grid Erasure presents a radical attempt for a publication, wherein word placement, textual style, and content each reflect upon the other to result in a completely new form of print.
- Book Intro
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A Grid Erasure is Kim Nuiyeon's first poetry collection and the first volume published by Œumil. The collection is divided into three parts and features 71 poems (1 on the cover, 10 poems in the first part, 59 in the second, and 1 in the third). Part 1 presents a process where words are chosen according to the phonetic sounds of the words and the surface of the text. In Part 2, word placement, textual style, and content each reflect upon the other to create entirely new patterns. Part 3 has been written backwards, as a segue into the next book. The book's title is composed of the words that are featured in the poems in the book; the poem A Grid Erasure appears multiple times on the cover.
- About the Author
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Kim Nuiyeon
Author and editor. Publications include Literary Walks, Rhetoric: Embellishment and Digression, Poetry Is Straight, Out of Joint, Period, La Pièce, etc., along with The Person Who Speaks and the poetry collection A Grid Erasure.
- Award
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Korean Publishers' Association, 2020, Most Beautiful Book in Korea
- Recommendation
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Lee Sumyeong (poet, critic), 2020: The dimensional sounds that words make as they are uttered in speech create their own inherent music (...) Speech becomes closer in form to sound.
Lee Kijoon (designer), 2020: There is a restrained energy in this book. It fills up and spills over into the blank spaces.
Choi Seulgi (designer), 2021: The way systems and happenstance meet create a sensually pleasing joy and a feeling that truly lasts.
- Selection
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Selected by 2019 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture Artist Support Project Literature Creative Collections Support
