Novelist Kim Hoon, who has been actively working, winning the Dong-in Literary Award and the Yi Sang Literary Award in succession for his novel “Song of the Sword” and his short story “Makeup,” was a newspaper reporter who kept many people captivated by his pen before becoming a writer, and an outstanding writer who made many poets and novelists nervous with his sharp and elegant sentences.
This book is a revised edition of Kim Hoon's first book, "The Books I Read and the World," published at that time.
From the existing manuscript, only the parts related to poetry were collected, and other poetry reviews were added to it, and it was presented anew with the subtitle ‘Kim Hoon’s Poetry Story.’

Part 1, 'Autumn Woven with Poetry', consists of an introduction to the people and landscapes encountered while traveling to the West Sea, East Sea, Eulsukdo Island, Gimje Man-gyeong Plain, and Seomjin River, as well as poems that sing of those places.
The consistent emotion that runs through the author's appreciation of each place and poem is the loneliness and longing conveyed by the season of 'autumn.'
Through him, we can feel a sharp and generous gaze that penetrates the meaning of life given to humans.
In Part 2, 'Summer and Poetry,' we read poems entangled with the media that brought about the representative poetry of the 1980s, namely birds, islands, seas, mountains, rivers, and blades of grass, and delicately capture the patterns drawn by each poem, while also expressing the author's own thoughts on birds, islands, and rivers.
Part 3, 'Poetry Collection Tour', is a collection of short reviews of poems and poetry collections published by representative young poets of the 1980s (Shin Kyeong-rim, Hwang Ji-woo, Lee Seong-bok, Ki Hyeong-do, Heo Su-gyeong, Lee Mun-jae, Ko Jeong-hee, Kwak Jae-gu, Kim Yong-taek, etc.) during that period.
You can catch a glimpse of the vibrant creative scene where the representative works of poets who are still widely read and have long been loved by readers and critics were written, as well as the resolute and pure aspirations of young poets as seen through the eyes of young reporter Kim Hoon.
These are not formal and tasteless reviews, but rather writings that allow you to read the poem and the poet at the same time, and that you read with your heart first, not your head.

“Gihyungdo is my friend.
It's difficult to write about a friend's writing.
Because that person's face is swollen.
I write this while telling that dwarf face to 'go away'.
(......) I can't tell my friend who is loitering at the station to stop and come into the world.
To say so would be nothing but a shameless morality.
In his station, all the paths that lead into and out of the world cannot meet again, and is it okay for my friend to grow old like this?
“I am covering the winter issue (1988) of Literature and Society, which contains his poetry.”

--- p.201

“Hwang Ji-woo (32) is standing at the starting line.
(......) He endlessly wants to 'go', 'flow', and 'enter', but he also tries hard not to leave in the end.
The conflict at the starting line seems to be giving tension to his poetry.
(......) He lives at home, translating, writing reports, and occasionally writing poetry.
He is a young father who, while pushing his five-year-old daughter on a wooden cart in an empty lot, falls into the fantasy that his daughter, riding on the wooden horse, has entered a distant and unseen land.”
“Hwang Ji-woo (32) is standing at the starting line.
(......) He endlessly wants to 'go', 'flow', and 'enter', but he also tries hard not to leave in the end.
The conflict at the starting line seems to be giving tension to his poetry.
(......) He lives at home, translating, writing reports, and occasionally writing poetry.
He is a young father who, while pushing his five-year-old daughter on a wooden cart in an empty lot, falls into the fantasy that his daughter, riding on the wooden horse, has entered a distant and unseen land.”

--- p.233

“The poetry of Kwak Jae-gu (30) is powerful because it is pure.
Despite the fact that the contemporary reality his poetry portrays is by no means a cozy and abundant world, he says, "I will strive to sing of hope rather than despair, and love rather than pain."
(......) Since school was on winter break, he went on a few more trips.
He just said, 'I saw the mountains and the sea.'
His words sounded like he was preparing another lyric poem.”
“The poetry of Kwak Jae-gu (30) is powerful because it is pure.
Despite the fact that the contemporary reality his poetry portrays is by no means a cozy and abundant world, he says, "I will strive to sing of hope rather than despair, and love rather than pain."
(......) Since school was on winter break, he went on a few more trips.
He just said, 'I saw the mountains and the sea.'
His words sounded like he was preparing another lyric poem.”

-- p.227