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Indeterminate Inflorescence

Notes from a poetry class
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How do you write a poem? These startling and beautiful meditations on poetry offer a provocative new answer. Kick against words like you would kick back on a swing. You've got to feel as if the soles of your feet are touching the sky. Indeterminate Inflorescence... Read More
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Indeterminate Inflorescence

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How do you write a poem? These startling and beautiful meditations on poetry offer a provocative new answer.

Kick against words like you would kick back on a swing. You've got to feel as if the soles of your feet are touching the sky.

Indeterminate Inflorescence is a collection of meditations on poetry, art, and life, taken from the creative writing lectures of Lee Seong-bok, one of South Korea's most prominent living poets.

These 470 aphorisms, collected by his students, are evocative micropoems in their own right. Some express ideas at once familiar and breathtakingly newβ€”truths we could sense but not put into words. Others unfurl fresh vistas and offer worlds to explore in their exciting and inspiring poetics.

Together, they offer an invigorating and original answer to the questions: Howβ€”and whyβ€”do we write at all? What does it mean to create? And how should we see the world?

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241728154

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 November 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Allen Lane

Contributors:

  • Translated by Anton Hur

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 120.0mm

Height: 190.0mm

Weight: 198g

Pages: 176

About the Author

Lee Seong-Bok (Author) Lee Seong-bok, often referred to as a poet's poet, was born in Sangju, Korea. He managed to enter the prestigious Gyeonggi High School in Seoul where he was inspired to write by his Korean teacher, the poet Kim Won-ho, as well as the work of poet Kim Soo-young. After graduating from Seoul National University with a degree in French, he worked at Keimyung University in Daegu for forty years, interrupted by a stint of living in Paris, where he studied the poststructuralists as well as the tenets of Seon Buddhism. He has written eight collections of poetry and numerous other books including academic and mainstream literary criticism, creative writing, and two books of essays on photography. Anton Hur (Translator) Anton Hur was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the translator of the runaway Korean bestseller, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, he won a PEN Translates award for Kang Kyeong-ae's The Underground Village, and his translation of Bora Chung's Cursed Bunny was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. He lives in Seoul, South Korea.

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