Yi Sang: Selected Works
By Yi Sang
Edited by Don Mee Choi
Translated by Jack Jung, Don Mee Choi, Sawako Nakayasu, Joyelle McSweeney
Publication Date: September 1, 2020
ISBN# 9781950268085 (6.75 x 8, 224pp, paperback)
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Formally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang’s works were uniquely situated amid the literary experiments of world literature in the early twentieth century and the political upheaval of 1930s Japanese occupied Korea. While his life ended prematurely at the age of twenty-seven, Yi Sang’s work endures as one of the great revolutionary legacies of modern Korean literature. Presenting the work of the influential Korean modernist master, this carefully curated selection assembles poems, essays, and stories that ricochet off convention in a visionary and daring response to personal and national trauma, reminding us that to write from the avant-garde is a form of civil disobedience.
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Overflowing with “pungent ink” and “liquid silver,” the dove-white pages of this decadent volume are filled with profound doubles, mysterious riddles, “murderous” lines, a blaze of numbers, and the germy ache of disease…This book is a rebellion against colonial violence. Carry it around under your shirt. Like a stethoscope, hold the cold mirror against your skin. A most welcome shield in these fiery times of protest.
—Paul Cunningham, Kenyon ReviewIt demonstrates how the legacy of a poet is always in the process of becoming, as their works are woven into new historical and socio-linguistic sites.
—Jae Won Edward Chung, Asymptote Journal -
Yi Sang (1910-1937) was a painter, architect, poet and writer of 1930s Korea, when Korean peninsula was under Japanese colonial rule. Yi Sang wrote and published in both Korean and Japanese until his early death from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-seven, after imprisonment by Japanese police for thought crimes in Tokyo. His work shows innovative engagement with European modernism, especially that of Surrealism and Dada. He is considered one of the most experimental writers of Korean modernism.
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