음악처럼 스캔들처럼
- Page
- 196
- Publication Date
- May 23, 2008
- ISBN
- 9788932018577
Fireworks of painful fantasies
—wounds, desires, and relief of women.
The second collection of Lee Minha, one of the leading figures of Korea’s avantgarde poetry, Musically Scandalously represents the nightmarish experience of a narcoleptic in her compulsive, anxiety-ridden language, enhanced and diversified from the grotesque, fantastical images in her debut collection Phantom Limbs(2005). The fantasies she sings are not to cover up the deficiencies of reality but to disclose them—until the phantoms form a sandstorm. “How will I weather this sandstorm? I’m reminded of my younger self”, confessed the poet, who has explained that the vast sea of fantastic images occurs not only in her own poetic world but also in each of our personal memories, rendering the poems the poet’s coping mechanism against such pain. Blending her playful yet serious writing on fantasies into the open-ended structure, Musically Scandalously is teeming with Lee’s lush poems that will activate your heart and brain alike.