“I don’t want to have an identity. I am just one of the regular people who carry wounds and sadness with them, but try to recover and live. I believe in the dignity of ordinary life.”
In our August Poet of the Month interview, Kim Yideum talks to Katy Lewis Hood (via translator Ji Yoon Lee).
Katy Lewis Hood interviews The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, Kim Yideum, with Kim Yideum’s answers displayed in the original Korean.
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“A writer has his hands deep in his pockets, pulling out his machine guns/ and rifles.”
By Kim Yideum, translated from Korean by Ji Yoon Lee, Don Mee Choi and Johannes Göransson.
“I’m cargo, a shipping container dripping with fetid water./ I’m hastily packed and transported, then shipped over.”
By Kim Yideum, translated from Korean by Ji Yoon Lee, Don Mee Choi and Johannes Göransson.
“Poetry? I don’t have a clue about it anymore./ Dedications and contributions? To whom, for what?”
By Kim Yideum, translated from Korean by Ji Yoon Lee, Don Mee Choi and Johannes Göransson.