{"product_id":"just-like","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\u003e\u003cspan\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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJust Like\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e introduces a brilliant and singular contemporary Korean writer into English.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\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. \u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46502486278354,"sku":"9781939568755","price":26.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_acb257c2-cb2a-47c7-abd5-bc258e2b905d.jpg?v=1763717265","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/just-like","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}