OSSIA

This extraordinary debut collection from queer Korean-American poet Jimin Seo, moves between Korean and English, translating and re-translating micro-histories of grief, mourning, and love into a singular reading experience.

In this extraordinary, passionate debut poetry collection, Jimin Seo takes up a material we think we recognize – language – and transforms it through permutation, history, and translation into a lyrical and alien terrain. Seo takes up both Korean and English, drawing them across multiple experiences of relation – none of them equivalence. Translation and re-translation triangulate to form the ghostly third other which defines every relationship of two. Fragmentation, riff, homophony, and analogy sprawl like cuttings from a plant, yielding poems that grow in defiant new directions. This is a book calling to a mother, a teacher, lovers, and ultimately a self whose elements materialise through language, even as the speaker laments what language cannot be or hold.

• | Author: Jimin Seo
• | Publisher: The 87 Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 16, 2024
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781068644627
• | ISBN-10: 1068644621