[Book review] Pandemic-weary poets around world muse on life
By Park Han-sol "Hey, I thought my enemy was communism or imperialism… Or aliens or nightmare… / But it was you all along." In "Location of an Enemy," poet Lee Jang-wook comes to realize that the enemy he feared all his life was neither patriarchy, terrorists nor racists; it was another person, a potential host of the virus, greeting him. His poem is one of many pieces included in "Staying on Earth," a poetry anthology first published in September by CUON in Japanese and later translated into Korean. CUON is a Japanese publishing house that was established to introduce Korean literature t...