This is an impressively imaginative collection of poems that enables the impossible within the non-linear void of time and space.

First, we must understand the ""time"" that penetrates Ha Jaeyeon's collection of poems. The time we are living in only flows forward. Regardless of whether it is is 1 minute or 1 second, time flows at a constant pace, and as time accumulates, it eventually becomes 1 day, in a linear fashion.

But the time of Ha Jaeyeon is a little odd. Time in this book does not flow in a linear fashion, but rather flows down a crack that is already there. This leads time to flow in fractals or triangles, like a child trying to draw it in the air. This causes the time of the past in this world to catch up to the future, and the future also becomes a point in time that passed by long ago.

We can expand the poems of Ha Jaeyeon for better understanding. Within Ha Jaeyeon's ""time,"" which is not linear, shouldn't there be small cracks that evidently form between people? The non-linear time and space defined by Ha Jaeyeon, where ""time that melts down everything"" flows down these cracks, is a place where death before life and death after death exist, and also a place that can hold poetic imagination of a world of unlimited expansion that sucks everything in.

The Korean word “Annyeong” is used when exchanging both greetings and goodbyes. Is this word the greeting or the goodbye from the author? It would be easy to find the answer in poems that have a linear structure with an end and a start. But the word ""Annyeong"" used by Ha Jaeyeon creates a completely different meaning; it embodies new opportunities. In the world of unlimited expansion, the greeting and goodbye by Ha Jaeyeon, it is the ""Universal Annyeong."

Ha Jaeyeon

Ha Jaeyeon debuted with the 1st New Writer Award by Literature and Society in 2002. Ha's collections of poems includes Radio Days and Like All the Beaches in the World..