Double Exclusion /이중소외

Poetry

ISBN 978-1-957746-14-2

p.72

Double Exclusion is a poetic, visual journey of distance, fragmentation, and alienation. Written in equal combination of English and Korean, Kim navigates through literal waters, judicial systems, and the limits of poetry with striking attention to the most mundane scenes that paint the picture of a life without consolation. From the painstaking narration of a bleak housing accommodation to the revisioning of language in the spiral of a seashell, the collection observes and maps the world as Kim sees it, double-visioned, in which the poet must re-aim time and again seeking the language of wholeness. This collection is not a work of translation but a work of non-translation, in which the poet moves between languages to avoid detection, speaking in a fullness that few may attune their listening to.