Human Time
Selected Poems
- This is the first English-language collection of poems by this award-winning South Korean poet.
A selection of the poems in translation have appeared in Asymptote and on the Action Books blog: https://actionbooks.org/2021/08/kim-haengsook-five-poems/
The author is associated with the Korean Futurism school of poetry, which emerged in the 2000s when young poets began writing experimental works that broke with the lyrical tradition of South Korea.
The editor and lead translator is well connected in both Asian literature and translation circles.
Kim Haengsook is one of the best-known Korean contemporary poets. Her books include Adolescence (2003), The Goodbye Ability (2007), and What Errands Are You Running? (2020), which won the prestigious Daesan Literary Award in South Korea. She is a professor at Kangnam University.
Jake Levine is a poet, translator, and scholar. He has authored, translated, or cotranslated over a dozen books, including Kim Yideum’s Hysteria (Action Books 2019), which received the National Translation Award and Lucien Stryk Prize. His first full-length collection of poems is The Imagined Country for Black Ocean.
Susan K studied English Literature and Linguistics at the University of Toronto. After spending years teaching English and managing people who teach English, she decided to walk the cold and lonely path of a freelance translator. She completed the Literature Translation fellowship program and the Media Translation fellowship program at the Literature Translation Institute of Korea and currently works as a full-time translator of poetry, webcomics, movies, and pretty much anything that interests her. She has also received a grant from the LTI to translate Park Soran’s poetry collection, One Person’s Closed Door. She loves all animals, but especially dogs; she loves all books, but especially mystery thrillers.
Léo-Thomas Brylowski graduated with a BA from the University of British Columbia and went on to complete the two-year LTI Korea Translation Academy fellowship program in Seoul. He was the Grand Prize recipient of the Korea Times Modern Korean Literature Translation Award in 2019 for his translation of Lee Kiho’s short story “Choe Mijin, Where Have You Gone?” and has also received a grant from LTI Korea in 2020 for the translation of a novel by author Park Young. He is based in Seoul and works full-time as a webtoon (online comics) translator.
Hannah Quinn Hertzoggraduated from the University of Washington with degrees in Korean, Asian languages and literature, and computer science, then went on to complete both the two-year fellowship program and the summer-long Media Translation fellowship program at the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. In 2020, she received the Grand Prize at the 51st Korea Times Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards for her translation of Kim Un-su’s short story “Jab,” as well as the LTI Korea Translation Award for Aspiring Translators for her translation of Hwang Jung-eun’s short story “Gravedig.” She currently works full-time as a software engineer in Seoul.
Joanne Park studied history at Yonsei University and finished the regular course program at LTI Korea. She lives with her cat in Seoul.
Soohyun Yangis a freelance translator and interpreter. Her translations have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation; Korean Literature Now(Winter 2019); and The Poems of Hwang Yuwon, Ha Jaeyoun, and Seo Daekyung; Seoul Wowbook Festival (2017); and Gothenburg Book Fair (2019).
Soeun Seo (she/they) is a poet and translator from South Korea and a recent graduate of the Michener Center for Writers. Their poems and translations have appeared in such venues as Hayden’s Ferry Review, Korean Literature Now, Guernicaand Black Warrior Review, among others. They cotranslated Hysteria, Beautiful and Uselessby Kim Min Jeong, cotranslated with Jake Levine, was also published by Black Ocean.
JiyoonLee lives in Texas, likes hippy stuff, sings in a band, and she likes dancing in the morning. Currently, she is busy learning how to become a small, fluffy white dog.
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