Because poetry kills us
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Book Introduction
Looking into the heart of poetry through the poet's eyes
Some people write poetry, some people read poetry, and some people teach poetry.
Sometimes, the poet embodies all of these 'someones' in one body.
Read other people's poetry, write your own poetry, read your students' poetry, and teach it.
A poet who lives like that may be living his entire life through poetry.
"Because Poetry Kills Us" is an intimate account of a poet for whom poetry has become a part of his daily life.
This is a record written by a person for whom poetry has become an ordinary part of his daily life, looking closely into the heart of poetry through his eyes.
Even though poetry has become his life and he seems to have mastered it, he can never speak with confidence about poetry.
He hesitates and mutters, “Isn’t this what poetry is like?”
This book does not clearly illuminate the path to writing/reading poetry.
Rather than simply showing you the way, this book brings you one step closer to poetry.
One step further with the heart of poetry.
Some people write poetry, some people read poetry, and some people teach poetry.
Sometimes, the poet embodies all of these 'someones' in one body.
Read other people's poetry, write your own poetry, read your students' poetry, and teach it.
A poet who lives like that may be living his entire life through poetry.
"Because Poetry Kills Us" is an intimate account of a poet for whom poetry has become a part of his daily life.
This is a record written by a person for whom poetry has become an ordinary part of his daily life, looking closely into the heart of poetry through his eyes.
Even though poetry has become his life and he seems to have mastered it, he can never speak with confidence about poetry.
He hesitates and mutters, “Isn’t this what poetry is like?”
This book does not clearly illuminate the path to writing/reading poetry.
Rather than simply showing you the way, this book brings you one step closer to poetry.
One step further with the heart of poetry.
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index
1 Writing that Loses Me
2 o'clock creative class
3 Life Lyrics
4 In a hoarse voice
Notes
Author's Note
2 o'clock creative class
3 Life Lyrics
4 In a hoarse voice
Notes
Author's Note
Into the book
If poetry was 'what it should be', we would all have been
I would not have entered the path of writing poetry.
What poetry is and what it should be,
The mysterious fear that comes from the fact that you may not know even in the moment you are living the poem,
It brightens the poet's dark lonely night.
--- From "The Fear of Poetry"
The saying that a work cannot speak for itself points out the reason for the existence of criticism.
This actually seems to fit the creator's situation better.
A poet is someone who doesn't know much about the poetry he writes.
He doesn't explain it very well.
People who are drowning in water and people who are happy
I can't quite describe my condition.
But he already described that condition in poetry.
How did the marathon runner who ran at full speed and then collapsed after crossing the finish line run?
It's foolish to ask.
The problem is the sprint.
--- From "Creation and Criticism"
Whether it is loneliness, sadness, fear or happiness, if it is to become truly unique in poetry,
Like a poet suddenly diagnosed with a serious illness or someone who accidentally sets fire to his house.
It seems like I will have to find myself in a state of confusion and perplexity.
Even the most skilled writer stumbles in this state.
In fact, trying to become proficient
Just to try to feel it out.
Poetry always creates problems.
It's a house on fire.
--- From "The House on Fire"
It has been said that good sentences come out of difficulties.
So always
Asking me to say sentences that are difficult to handle, and saying things that don't make sense
Then try to somehow resolve it with the next sentence.
Try to continue in a strange way again and again.
Then, at some point,
There will come a time when those nonsensical sentences will somehow make sense.
The sentences of the poem are written 'somehow'
--- From "Somehow"
The word 'thorn' has a feeling of pain.
A feeling of pain just thinking about it or looking at it.
It may be because of the memory of being stabbed, but it is the pain of being stabbed in the heart that was trying to break, so the pain
It is built by people.
More than that, the color and fragrance of the white thistle flowers blooming here
It's just so painful that it's hard to approach.
I feel like the thorns of the thornbush are mine.
--- From "The Rose of Sharon"
I fought all my life with people who were there and who weren't there.
Now he will live here for a long time as a person who is absent but present.
I would not have entered the path of writing poetry.
What poetry is and what it should be,
The mysterious fear that comes from the fact that you may not know even in the moment you are living the poem,
It brightens the poet's dark lonely night.
--- From "The Fear of Poetry"
The saying that a work cannot speak for itself points out the reason for the existence of criticism.
This actually seems to fit the creator's situation better.
A poet is someone who doesn't know much about the poetry he writes.
He doesn't explain it very well.
People who are drowning in water and people who are happy
I can't quite describe my condition.
But he already described that condition in poetry.
How did the marathon runner who ran at full speed and then collapsed after crossing the finish line run?
It's foolish to ask.
The problem is the sprint.
--- From "Creation and Criticism"
Whether it is loneliness, sadness, fear or happiness, if it is to become truly unique in poetry,
Like a poet suddenly diagnosed with a serious illness or someone who accidentally sets fire to his house.
It seems like I will have to find myself in a state of confusion and perplexity.
Even the most skilled writer stumbles in this state.
In fact, trying to become proficient
Just to try to feel it out.
Poetry always creates problems.
It's a house on fire.
--- From "The House on Fire"
It has been said that good sentences come out of difficulties.
So always
Asking me to say sentences that are difficult to handle, and saying things that don't make sense
Then try to somehow resolve it with the next sentence.
Try to continue in a strange way again and again.
Then, at some point,
There will come a time when those nonsensical sentences will somehow make sense.
The sentences of the poem are written 'somehow'
--- From "Somehow"
The word 'thorn' has a feeling of pain.
A feeling of pain just thinking about it or looking at it.
It may be because of the memory of being stabbed, but it is the pain of being stabbed in the heart that was trying to break, so the pain
It is built by people.
More than that, the color and fragrance of the white thistle flowers blooming here
It's just so painful that it's hard to approach.
I feel like the thorns of the thornbush are mine.
--- From "The Rose of Sharon"
I fought all my life with people who were there and who weren't there.
Now he will live here for a long time as a person who is absent but present.
--- From "Representative Roh's Thoughts"
Publisher's Review
The heart of writing poetry
This is poet Lee Young-kwang's second collection of prose.
The poet, who showed the world of poetic prose in his first collection of essays, “I Didn’t Come to Earth to Make Money,” focuses solely on poetry in this book and contemplates poetry throughout.
Poets often say that when poetry is not written, 'poetry is not coming.'
The poet's metaphors appear frequently in this book.
The poet also says, "He is like an ox driven by a plow," and "He speaks without even knowing it."
The author says that, as is commonly thought, the poet is not the master of 'poetry', but rather 'poetry' is the master who commands the poet.
This book is packed with truths discovered by the poet's heart.
The heart of reading poetry
When his own poetry does not arrive, the poet reads other people's poetry or writing.
The poet, who also works as a teacher at a university, also reads the practice poems of students who have not yet become poets.
With what kind of mind does the poet read such writings?
In good prose, the poet discovers 'poetry', and in good poetry, he finds 'the reason why it became poetry'.
To his students who have aspirations of becoming poets, he subtly reveals the secrets of poetry.
There is a post that says, 'Your love wrote this.'
A phone call with my mother, who had just finished reading the poet's Sewol Ferry poem.
The poet writes this in response to the comment that a 'half-illiterate country old woman' cried while reading the poem.
"My heart is pounding with surprise at my mother's upgrade." This is the heart-pounding sense of solidarity with those who discovered poetry, the heart of reading poetry contained in this book.
From somewhere unknown
An unknown word comes to me
Poets don't often say that their poetry isn't good.
He says the poem doesn't come well.
The poem itself is unknown
I think it comes from somewhere.
Because it's a word coming from an unknown place
At this time, 'poem=word' can be called 'unknown word'.
The poet at the moment he came across this word
He is a person who speaks without knowing what he is saying.
I'm not saying this after thinking about it.
Words that can only be remembered if you don't think about them
These are the words that come straight to the poet.
_From the text
This is poet Lee Young-kwang's second collection of prose.
The poet, who showed the world of poetic prose in his first collection of essays, “I Didn’t Come to Earth to Make Money,” focuses solely on poetry in this book and contemplates poetry throughout.
Poets often say that when poetry is not written, 'poetry is not coming.'
The poet's metaphors appear frequently in this book.
The poet also says, "He is like an ox driven by a plow," and "He speaks without even knowing it."
The author says that, as is commonly thought, the poet is not the master of 'poetry', but rather 'poetry' is the master who commands the poet.
This book is packed with truths discovered by the poet's heart.
The heart of reading poetry
When his own poetry does not arrive, the poet reads other people's poetry or writing.
The poet, who also works as a teacher at a university, also reads the practice poems of students who have not yet become poets.
With what kind of mind does the poet read such writings?
In good prose, the poet discovers 'poetry', and in good poetry, he finds 'the reason why it became poetry'.
To his students who have aspirations of becoming poets, he subtly reveals the secrets of poetry.
There is a post that says, 'Your love wrote this.'
A phone call with my mother, who had just finished reading the poet's Sewol Ferry poem.
The poet writes this in response to the comment that a 'half-illiterate country old woman' cried while reading the poem.
"My heart is pounding with surprise at my mother's upgrade." This is the heart-pounding sense of solidarity with those who discovered poetry, the heart of reading poetry contained in this book.
From somewhere unknown
An unknown word comes to me
Poets don't often say that their poetry isn't good.
He says the poem doesn't come well.
The poem itself is unknown
I think it comes from somewhere.
Because it's a word coming from an unknown place
At this time, 'poem=word' can be called 'unknown word'.
The poet at the moment he came across this word
He is a person who speaks without knowing what he is saying.
I'm not saying this after thinking about it.
Words that can only be remembered if you don't think about them
These are the words that come straight to the poet.
_From the text
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Publication date: October 31, 2020
- Page count, weight, size: 328 pages | 135*210*30mm
- ISBN13: 9791187361107
- ISBN10: 1187361100
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