An acclaimed poets poet with deadpan wit and a gift for lyric innovation reveals an entirely new side of Korean contemporary poetry.This debut Englishlanguage collection by Shin Haeuk offers up poems that rebel against the thin boundaries between self and others human and object speaker and addressee. These poems inhabit the voices of houses colors planets childhood friends they know the manic spunk of a good day and the dizzy lethargy of a bad memory.ampamp160In this kaleidoscopic collection Shin breaks open for todayampamp8217s young poets the possibilities of time tense and speaker.ampamp160Critics in her home country praise her as a prophet of the posthuman asking what is it like to exist and feelas a dead animal as a sound as someone elseampamp8217s memory. But for all its philosophical intelligence Shinampamp8217s poetry is also funny friendly and sometimes even snarky full of jagged left turns and mood changes.