Spencer Lee-Lenfield is an assistant editor at The Yale Review and a contributing editor at Harvard Magazine, as well as a PhD student in comparative literature at Yale. His writing and translations have appeared in publications including The Chronicle Review, Slate, and Colorado Review. He is currently working with Shin Hae-uk to finish a translation of her poetry collection Biologicity (2005).
Drawing out the personal, historical, and the philosophical, a new translation of Yi Sang’s work edited by Don Mee Choi offers an original look at a classic writer.