Fog, Heavy Snow, and Sandy Shores: The Chilling Poetry of Jeong Sunwoo... Second Collection "Will My Story Become the Truth?"

Fog, heavy snow, and white sandy shores. These are familiar landscapes. Yet, in the poetry of Jeong Sunwoo, they come across as slightly cold and chilling.

Jeong Sunwoo, a poet from Busan, has published his second poetry collection, "Will My Story Become the Truth?" (Paran Siseon 0163, published by Together Publishing Group Paran).

This new collection features 52 poems, including "Fog and You and Your Fog," "Heavy Snow," and "It Is the White Sandy Shore on the West Bank." The poet states, "You, I, and this world are all voids." However, even within that emptiness, images ceaselessly come alive and stir the reader's senses.

Jeong Sunwoo made his literary debut in 2015 through "Poetry and People." Following his first collection, "Everyone's Quinces," this new book, "Will My Story Become the Truth?" explores the relationships between self and others, and the voids of the world. The poet confesses, "You, I, and this world are all voids," yet builds images upon that emptiness, mapping out the terrain of sensation and thought.

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Literary critic Park Daehyun writes in the commentary, "Jeong Sunwoo's poetry is a record of enduring the process of becoming a void," and adds, "Within the images, we encounter the bare-boned cry that remains."

Poet Moon Taejun, who wrote the recommendation, describes, "His poems are living things filled with tremendous energy. They evaporate in an instant, tangle in an instant, and scatter again." He also notes, "There is a particular abundance of water imagery, and the eyes of his lines are moist," emphasizing that this collection is imbued with the determination to go to the very edge of the cliff, no matter what.

Jeong Sunwoo's second poetry collection, "Will My Story Become the Truth?" offers readers a new sense of life at the intersection of image and thought, existence and emptiness.

Having debuted through "Poetry and People," Jeong Sunwoo delves even more intensely into the relationships between existence and others and the sensation of emptiness in this new work, following his first collection, "Everyone's Quinces." Readers, together with his gaze, endure the "proliferating, damp" cries of life and encounter the rebirth of the self once again.

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