Description
A collection of meditations on poetry, art and life, taken from the creative writing lectures of one of South Korea’s most prominent living poets
‘Kick against words like you would kick back on a swing. You’ve got to feel as if the soles of your feet are touching the sky.’
These 470 aphorisms, collected by his students, are evocative micropoems in their own right. Some express ideas at once familiar and breathtakingly new – truths we could sense but not put into words. Others unfurl fresh vistas and offer worlds to explore in their exciting and inspiring poetics.
Together, they offer an invigorating and original answer to the questions: How – and why – do we write at all? What does it mean to create? And how should we see the world?
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
Nine Poems 
The Handle of the Door 
Snow in the Garden 
Advance Payment: Selected Poems Translated by David Colmer 
We Are Together 
Hansel and Gretel 
101 Poems About Childhood 
Forgive the Language 
Floss 
Dog Poems 
Negative of a Group Photograph 
This Is Yarrow 
Over the Moon 
Book of Mercy 
Notebook of a Return to My Native Land