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 Hangul, 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.
 
Shantal Jeewon Kim is a visual artist and writer based in South Korea and the United States. She studied Art & Technology and Psychology at Sogang University (Seoul, Korea) and is a graduate of the Image Text MFA from Ithaca College (NY, USA). Shantal's conceptual work is at the intersection of memory, melancholy, and translation, exploring both photography and experimental texts medium. Shantal has had 4 solo shows, and participated in several group shows, screenings, and magazine publications. Her image-text monograph When the Wind Blew and the Time Stopped was published by Fifth Wheel Press.