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My Position from Now On

Author

Yu Gye-yeong

Publisher

ACHIMDALBOOKS

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Young Adult
Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #Poem
  • #Dog
  • #Language

Copyright Contact

Son Moonkyung

  • Publication Date

    2021-07-21
  • No. of pages

    124
  • ISBN

    9791189467258
  • Dimensions

    125 * 190
Overview

Distancing herself from a familiar sensibility, the poet observes daily life with an uncommon poetic language.

Book Intro

Achimdalbooks Series No. 20 is the poet, Yu Gye-yeong's fourth anthology of poems in which she scrutinizes the façade of everyday life with not an ordinary but uncommon language. The poet characteristically stands afar from the familiar consolation or pretense of evil, showing how when one takes a closer look at daily life through an unfamiliar language, the concealed meanings in our everyday life can be discovered. 

 

Beyond safe imagination

 

Yu Gye-yeong's poetry often brings readers to a standstill. It makes us stop and face strange scenery. When language is freed from convention and used in an alien manner for the appropriate expression, the reader, too, will give attention to it by reading between the lines. The unfamiliar images that come to one’s mind do not necessarily try to explain anything. On the other hand, they seem to hold on to the position of not willing to explicate anything. 

 

Her poems are replete with phrases like, "Drifting within, then dripping through the mouth," reminiscent of a dead person's language and image. But these images do not elicit a sad, horrifying or scary emotion. Instead, what could be viewed as consumption is simply nature or just enjoyment. A post-mortem vision is frequently visible as well. 

 

Her poems speak of the gaze after death but they do not predict the future. It could be because she cares for the future like "the traces of a rabbit" that she has never come across. Because it will be deprived of its strength once it has been named and the future is that which is never here, Yu Gye-yeong leaves the in-between space in her poetry so that "the future poems can fill it in." Insofar as her position remains, readers can only look forward to the poems that she will write in the days ahead.

About the Author

Yu Gye-yeong



Yu Gye-yeong first published her work in Hyundae Literature in 2010. She wrote the following books of poetry: Noon of All Kinds of Things, I Can Now Talk About Innocence, and Is This Kind of Talk a Bit Dizzying?

 

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