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JUST LIKEPoetry. Black Ocean, 2024. Translated by Colin Leemarshall. Paperback, 128 pages. 7. 4" x 6. 0" From the press: Poems 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. These poems build strikingly on the breakthroughs of Korean forebears like Yi Sang and Oh Kyu won. They also establish Lee as an

Set against the early days of the pandemic

how to structure your text rhetorically

cobbling together taxonomies

Design / Theory

Art / Cooking

of departure and return

Instead of systematically discarding them

and strange

in which letters are released from their usual semantic duties as they slide into unexpected affinities and new patterns

The menagerie of poems in the second half employ a variety of invented forms

animal or human relationships

Each of the book's 12 chapters offers teachings on collaboration