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ISBN
9788932024622
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Author
Kim So Yeon김소연
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Publisher
Moonji Publishing co., Ltd.문학과지성사
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Year Published
2019
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Category
Poetry 시
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A Mathematician’s Morning (2019) is the fourth poetry collection of Kim So Yeon, who, since her debut in 1993, has investigated the poetics in casting light amid silence and excavating compassion from coldness. In this book, the poet illustrates with her exquisite language the sharp sensations that emerge while observing the quiet shadows of still objects and morning scenery. “We say ‘deep in the night,’ but why has no one said ‘deep in the morning’?” inquires the poet. Replete with the poet’s distinctively acute sensibilities, A Mathematician’s Morning enchants its readers by momentarily entering death every morning to see the invisible and hear the inaudible. Hwang Hyeon San, a veteran literary critic who had deconstructed poetry with a poignant intellect, left a heartfelt epilogue, rather than a commentary, to this book by a younger-generation poet. In this epilogue, he praises Kim So Yeon as a poet who “knows how to unearth the deepest understandings from the deepest places of the world” and discovers courage in the grief that evokes empathy in the poems. As Hwang says, when Kim So Yeon encounters grief, even if it once felt like it would never come, she burnishes even that in her poetry.
A poet, an essayist, a former director of a children’s library, and a person who writes and teaches poetry, Kim So Yeon is always found in a place where she is needed, according to Hwang. The wide range of her works has expressed emotions so thoroughly that there might hardly be a reader who hasn’t owed the poet for the words and sentences to express feelings. As Hwang put it, “the era didn’t even know how to exploit [the poet’s] feelings,” and we can’t but pay our due attention to Kim So Yeon’s fourth poetry collection. Because the language born of “the time woven with her deepest sorrow” is only made possible by Kim So Yeon, an “emotion mogul” who writes poetry with all of her body.
Kim So Yeon was born in 1967 in Gyeongju. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s in Korean literature from the Catholic University of Korea and published her first poem in 1993 in Modern Poetry and Thought. Her published collections include To the Brim, The Exhaustion of Stars Pulls the Night, The Bones Called Tears, A Mathematician’s Morning, and Dear i. She has also authored essay collections including The Dictionary of the Mind, The World of Siot, The One Letter Dictionary, The Entire World Minus Me, In Love Isn’t Love, and In Those Great Moments
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