문학과 지성사

Poetry that nullifies the boundaries,
love completed through transparent connection.

The second poetry collection by Kim Sono, the poet whose sumptuous diction has garnered attention from readers, The Set aims at the epistemological transition of our gaze toward others. The poet wishes to experience the world from a position different from theirs, and dreams of an equal connection among all of us in the state of a transparent ghost by collapsing the binary opposition between the subject and object(from “Joke and Command”). As a result, they achieve a nondiscriminatory, nonhierarchical relation only feasible among unidentifiable beings. Having accomplished this by leaving “I,” “we” are full of love.

In The Set, “I” is not only a singular subject but more of a poetic object that absorbs the world as a whole. The trajectory of such an “object” encompasses nonhuman objects as well as humans. In a world where everyone can become anything and the distinction between I and others is obliterated, finally comes the advent of the historical moment in which the nonbinary subject emerges.