CHEERFUL NOISE as in a poem

Review of Unexpected Vanilla by Lee Hyemi (trans. by So J. Lee) Three or four years ago, I wrote a review of  Unexpected Vanilla  by Korean poet Lee Hyemi (trans. by So J. Lee)  published by TILTED AXIS PRESS. ISBN-13:‎ 978-1911284505 https://www.tiltedaxispress.com/store/unexpectedvanilla While exploring translated poems, soon I want to touch the original: Korean, a sister language of Japanese. This experience is as if seeing Japanese through silk cloth. It creates a sense of wonder. And the impressions I get are quite different from poems written by British and American poets. My boat quietly drifts in ripple waves; on the contrary, it crosses high waves upon reading British and American poems. Might that be due to the similarity between Korean and Japanese languages? However, the work doesn’t make the processes of translation explicit to readers. Could the book be read without knowledge of the translation? – such a question was born in me, for I can go ahead fluently. And except for