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Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Translated by Jack Jung, Sawako Nakayasu, Don Mee Choi, and Joyelle McSweeney. 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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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. As Joyelle McSweeney has remarked, his poetry "seemed to deny the prerogatives of the mundane world while being saturated with the alienation and horror of the Occupation." Today, Yi Sang's work endures as one of the great revolutionary legacies of modern Korean literature.
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