[One Sip of a Book] "Writing Poetry Is Driving Language into a Corner and Falling into a Mouse Hole"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Seo Mideum] The poet has focused on the 'self' as the place where the material of 'body,' which gives life, and the material of 'language,' which constitutes the mind, intersect. In this poetry collection, the poet depicts a world that can be sensed as the 'body of language' through the endless deconstruction of the self and the blurring of boundaries that the poet pursues. Through a total of 29 linked poems, it captures the moment when consciousness, having lost the boundaries of the self, is born as 'words' consisting only of sound.

Writing poetry is to corner language / to trap it in a mouse hole / Can we think without language? / Poetry is thinking through images / At this time, language is caught in a trap / becoming crippled / not disappearing but turning into fragments / composing the details of images with its materiality / When the light turns on in the image / language disappears into the darkness of its shadow / It does not vanish but?在 with black dough / that has absorbed the light

Just because someone sits by the water and intently gazes at their reflection in the water to know themselves, it does not mean they can truly know themselves. Perhaps, at a certain moment, through the rhythm of rippling waves, the birth and death of light, or when touching the pebbles crouched at the bottom or the aquatic plants through the transparent body of water, one might indirectly see themselves. But who nowadays would sit by the water to recognize themselves?

(Written by Chae Hogi / Minumsa)

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