- Overview
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This is the second book of poetry by Kim Haengsook, a poet who has been actively building her own distinct vision of the world with traditional lyric poetry.
- Book Intro
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This book of poetry is by Kim Haengsook, a poet who made her debut in 1999 in the magazine Contemporary Literature. It's comprised of four parts and features more than 70 poems including The World of Affection, Good Dog, and Chorus, as well as the titular The Ability to Part.
Poetry in the 2000s was largely divided into reality poems that sought to express something more real and surface poems that attempted to mobilize the potential world by affirming simulacra. Kim Haengsook works represent the latter. As described by literary critic Shin Hyeong-cheol, Kim's poetry "dreams of a new world and sparks a new self", and Kim's "delicate sense of capturing an object as a simulacrum and methodological lightness in simulacratizing make her poetry special."
- About the Author
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Kim Haeng-sook
Kim Haeng-sook was born in Seoul in 1970 and made her literary debut in Contemporary Literature in 1999. Her poetry collections include Puberty, The Ability to Break Up, and The Meaning of the Other. She has also published A New Understanding of Literature: Crossing Creation and Ruin. Currently she's a professor of Korean literature at Kangnam University.
Kim Haeng-sook has broadened her creative world by asking the most stubborn of questions regarding avant-garde poetry and art itself. Kim has been beloved by readers for a long time, and in recognition of her literary achievements and role, was awarded with the Midang Literary Award, Nojak Literary Award, Jeon Bong-gun Literary Award, and others. As a poet, Kim has focused on the melting faces and reflecting echoes that symbolize a world of transformative, flexible images. "
