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Book SynopsisA Korean voice from a new generation of cutting-edge poets that will appeal to younger writers and readers. Shim includes deeply personal poems, lyric experiments, and strong social statements that reflects the voices of a community. His grandiose illusions and underprivileged whispers challenge us to consider our relationships.
Table of ContentsContents Foreword Part I Words Scratching My Philtrum Questions To My Dear Words Days Necessary Things Good Things Foreigners The Humor of Exclusion Open Friendship Wooden Tranquility Good Old Days Theory about Urban Solitude Their House If There Is Only One Flat Stone A Falling Flower A Boy Answers His Own Question A Stone Which Isn’t Dazzling The Creation Here Now The Soul Is Between One Tree and Another A Heart Gives Birth to a Future The First Line Part ?? None of the World’s Business Ad Mundi (To the World) The Word “Me” Fascination Bird You Hear with Ears of Corn Sleeping Late The Lost Gift Star Dad’s Tale about a Red Mountain and Rabbits Nostalgia Speaking Strangely Dream about a Fig Lunar Calendar Time of Transformation A Snob’s Room Granada One Night I’m Spending Alone at a Motel Contemplation April The Gravity of Destiny Letter to H.A. Stephen Haggard’s Death An Obscure Author Chronology Love Is My Weakness
