{"product_id":"alone-with-seoul-paperback","title":"Alone with Seoul - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCottia Fortune\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe persona that moves through \u003cem\u003eAlone with Seoul\u003c\/em\u003e is a shadow, an observer in two foreign lands-South Korea, where the poet is an incomer, and the land of love, from which the poet has stepped aside. There are griefs here that run deep and there is the hard nugget of knowing survival. There is the unflinching honesty that absence, pain and the drama it brings can become a comforting place to hide, that giving these up is a deeper and different loss, one that may allow love to arrive again one day: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot as tempest, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot as fire to burn me clean, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebut as quiet, steady light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSilence and solitude, the temptations of self-destruction and the ways we navigate an often alienating world thread through poems that are exquisitely pared to the essentials of a lucid image and a perfect phrase. Poems that are enhanced by fragments of translation into South Korean. A distinctive, elegant debut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 34\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.08 x 7.48 x 4.72 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 13, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48397004439801,"sku":"9781788641982","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/rUOj9sxid09781788641982.webp?v=1778662427","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/alone-with-seoul-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}