{"product_id":"sand-bookshop-raining-sand","title":"Sand Bookshop Raining Sand","description":"More real than dreams and more dreamlike than reality, the poems in Moon Boyoung's Sand Bookshop Raining Sand are dry, funny, surprising, and a joy to read. Boyoung infuses ordinary life with surrealist magic, building imaginary worlds from unexpected premises, then pushing them past their logical extreme.   This English-language translation by Jack Saebyok Jung and Hedgie Choi introduces new readers to the work of one of the most remarkable South Korean poets writing today. A tree that you hug for heat, a pool too awe-inspiring to swim in, a bookstore where it rains sand—across such scenes the poet questions how memory and identity change with every passing second.   A central feature is the book's playful uncertainty about authorship and translation—sometimes presenting itself as already \"in translation\" from imaginary writers, or from imaginary texts by real people. The result is a multilevel investigation of framing, perspective, understanding, and what, precisely, is an \"original.\"\"Einsteinworried that if he ran at the speed of light holding a mirrorthe light that started from his facewouldn't reach the mirrorand his face would disappear from it.\"—Excerpt from \"I'm Kept by Me\"","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57555337281909,"sku":"9780299361648","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/sand-bookshop-raining-sand","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}