[One Sip of a Book] Poems Like These This Month... 'Yeoldu Gaeui Dal Sihwajip'

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Since its publication in May 2018, this series has recorded cumulative sales of 50,000 copies as a steady bestseller. It combines 12 volumes of the 'Twelve Months Poetry and Illustration Collection' series, which express the seasons and feelings of the twelve months through poetry and illustrations. From January's "Last night, snow fell softly" to December's "Like those snowflakes fluttering gently," it contains 366 poems and 579 illustrations all in one volume. The book is produced in a hardcover exposed binding format with a total of 1,088 pages.

In our house

there are no chickens

only

the baby cries for milk

and dawn comes

In our house

there is no clock

only

the baby fusses for milk

and dawn comes

Baby’s Dawn - Yun Dong-ju

Hiding her face under the shade of an apricot tree, lying in the hospital backyard,

a young woman exposes her white legs beneath her white clothes

and sunbathes. Throughout the afternoon, no one comes to visit

this woman who suffers in her chest, not even a single butterfly.

There is not even a breeze on the apricot tree branches that are not sad.

?

Unable to endure a pain I do not even know, I came here for the first time.

But my old doctor does not understand the illness of the young.

He says I have no disease. This excessive trial,

this excessive fatigue, I must not be angry.

?

The woman rises from her seat, adjusts her collar, picks a marigold from the flowerbed,

pins it to her chest, and disappears into the hospital room.

I hope for the quick recovery of her health?no, my health as well?

and lie down in the place where she had been lying.

Hospital - Yun Dong-ju

Twelve Months Poetry and Illustration Collection | Yun Dong-ju et al. | Evening Moon | 1088 pages | 73,800 KRW

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