In the summer, our love practice alone
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Book Introduction
A collection of poems about youthful love, loss, and healing.
"Because you were the definition of summer."
A youth narrative composed of 165 poems encompassing love and separation, depression and hope.
How is love remembered and how is loss overcome?
Hwang Seo-hyeon's poetry collection, "Our Love Practice in Summer," is a complete narrative of 165 poems that covers the passionate love of youth, painful breakups, and deep depression, leading to healing.
The core of this collection of poems is the visualization of the entire process of love through the seasonal metaphor of 'summer'.
For the poet, summer is not just a season, but love itself.
As the phrase "You were the definition of summer" shows, the pain of loss is metaphorized as the changing of seasons by identifying the loved one with the seasons.
This work is particularly noteworthy for its honest portrayal of the depression and psychological pain experienced by modern youth, yet ultimately resulting in a message of comfort and healing.
Going beyond the limitations of existing love poems that only sing of the sweetness of love, it honestly portrays the despair and depression that come after a breakup, as well as the process of overcoming it and getting back on one's feet.
"Because you were the definition of summer."
A youth narrative composed of 165 poems encompassing love and separation, depression and hope.
How is love remembered and how is loss overcome?
Hwang Seo-hyeon's poetry collection, "Our Love Practice in Summer," is a complete narrative of 165 poems that covers the passionate love of youth, painful breakups, and deep depression, leading to healing.
The core of this collection of poems is the visualization of the entire process of love through the seasonal metaphor of 'summer'.
For the poet, summer is not just a season, but love itself.
As the phrase "You were the definition of summer" shows, the pain of loss is metaphorized as the changing of seasons by identifying the loved one with the seasons.
This work is particularly noteworthy for its honest portrayal of the depression and psychological pain experienced by modern youth, yet ultimately resulting in a message of comfort and healing.
Going beyond the limitations of existing love poems that only sing of the sweetness of love, it honestly portrays the despair and depression that come after a breakup, as well as the process of overcoming it and getting back on one's feet.
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Chapter 1.
The seasons look at us
We are always summer / To summer / Summer night / Memories of the summer you stayed for a moment / Seasons that resemble you / Missing the summer that passed / It was good because it was summer / Romance in summer / Love in the heat / Summer that couldn't leave / Definition of summer / Summer, and love / Summer is coming to me / You are gradually becoming summer / Meet me when spring comes / Incomplete / Cherry blossoms in full bloom / A spoonful of spring / Blooming spring / Don't leave, my spring / Spring, and youth / On the border between summer and winter / You are summer, I am winter / The seasons did nothing wrong / A season that was more splendid than ever / The reason why the four seasons are painful
Chapter 2.
On the border between love and separation
Because I will meet you soon / Love letter / You who appeared in my dream / My heart as I write / Daydream / I can't let you go / Longing / Somehow I love and hate you / Love and hate / I will give it to you / A letter to you / Things I couldn't say / A letter soaked in rain / The protagonist of a secret story / I will love without regrets / Dry love / Excuse / My fate / Dyeing my seventeenth year with you / My writing is clumsy and painful / Tender love / The process of parting / Words I haven't told you yet / I'm just saying that I miss you / You / Sentence / Aching fingers / Untimely love / First love is the definition of longing / Things that have similar pronunciations / Loving you becomes poetry / Firecrackers / Looking at the sea / Page
Chapter 3.
Now I'll soothe your sadness
A will / Devoured by depression / Moonlight / Sorrow / Hoping tomorrow never comes / Drowning / Unbearable depression / To you who abandoned me / In the name of love / Morning / Dawn light / The ending of depression / The ending of tragic love / Shame / The reason for depression / In the dark water / Feeling empty / The sin of giving a heart that doesn't exist / It doesn't hurt, but it feels like it hurts / Lost heart, dying me / Childhood / Until the past me became who I am now / Trials / Pure love / Tears hidden behind a smile / It doesn't have to be okay / You had a hard time today / Slowly, at your pace / The waves will wash my heart away
The seasons look at us
We are always summer / To summer / Summer night / Memories of the summer you stayed for a moment / Seasons that resemble you / Missing the summer that passed / It was good because it was summer / Romance in summer / Love in the heat / Summer that couldn't leave / Definition of summer / Summer, and love / Summer is coming to me / You are gradually becoming summer / Meet me when spring comes / Incomplete / Cherry blossoms in full bloom / A spoonful of spring / Blooming spring / Don't leave, my spring / Spring, and youth / On the border between summer and winter / You are summer, I am winter / The seasons did nothing wrong / A season that was more splendid than ever / The reason why the four seasons are painful
Chapter 2.
On the border between love and separation
Because I will meet you soon / Love letter / You who appeared in my dream / My heart as I write / Daydream / I can't let you go / Longing / Somehow I love and hate you / Love and hate / I will give it to you / A letter to you / Things I couldn't say / A letter soaked in rain / The protagonist of a secret story / I will love without regrets / Dry love / Excuse / My fate / Dyeing my seventeenth year with you / My writing is clumsy and painful / Tender love / The process of parting / Words I haven't told you yet / I'm just saying that I miss you / You / Sentence / Aching fingers / Untimely love / First love is the definition of longing / Things that have similar pronunciations / Loving you becomes poetry / Firecrackers / Looking at the sea / Page
Chapter 3.
Now I'll soothe your sadness
A will / Devoured by depression / Moonlight / Sorrow / Hoping tomorrow never comes / Drowning / Unbearable depression / To you who abandoned me / In the name of love / Morning / Dawn light / The ending of depression / The ending of tragic love / Shame / The reason for depression / In the dark water / Feeling empty / The sin of giving a heart that doesn't exist / It doesn't hurt, but it feels like it hurts / Lost heart, dying me / Childhood / Until the past me became who I am now / Trials / Pure love / Tears hidden behind a smile / It doesn't have to be okay / You had a hard time today / Slowly, at your pace / The waves will wash my heart away
Into the book
"You, who loved summer so much that you became more and more like summer.
“She had a smile as bright as the rising sun and a heart as blue as the expansive sky.”
--- 「1.
From "Definition of Love"
"We were always summer.
Our time has always been summer, the season when the sunlight stays the longest.
“The breath of that day, burning hot as we gazed at each other under the blue sky, is still vivid in my memory.”
--- 「2.
From “Love Remembered by Seasons”
"First love is the definition of longing.
You, whom I met suddenly, soon became my first love.
And you, who left so easily, soon came back to me with longing.
--- 「3.
From “The Meaning of First Love”
"I thought things would get better with time, I thought I'd forget with time, but somehow, it seems like you're becoming clearer."
--- 「4.
From "The Pain of Parting"
"I just want to say that I miss you.
Forgetting doesn't mean erasing you from memory, it just means becoming numb.
“Emotions, memories, even love.”
--- 「5.
From “The Essence of Longing”
"I just loved you because you were you.
I loved you for no other reason than being you.
Maybe I'll spend my whole life holding you in my arms.
This is my destiny, my predestined fate.
--- 「6.
From "The Fate of Love"
"Unbearable depression.
Eyes wide open and unfocused with tears welling up.
All of this was so depressing that even I, unable to bear the depression, would fall into the depths."
--- 「7.
From "The Depth of Melancholy"
"I don't want to live anymore.
Please watch me quietly.
I want to go into the darkness with no end in sight.
I hope tomorrow never comes.
--- 「8.
From "Moment of Despair"
"It doesn't have to be okay.
It's okay to be frustrated and sad.
You will use this point as a stepping stone to climb higher.
“You are still sowing seeds, and soon they will begin to sprout.”
--- 「9.
From “Message of Comfort”
"The waves will wash your heart.
If you sit quietly on the beach, the waves that come one by one will silently cleanse your heart.
The waves are always waiting for you in the name of gentle comfort."
“She had a smile as bright as the rising sun and a heart as blue as the expansive sky.”
--- 「1.
From "Definition of Love"
"We were always summer.
Our time has always been summer, the season when the sunlight stays the longest.
“The breath of that day, burning hot as we gazed at each other under the blue sky, is still vivid in my memory.”
--- 「2.
From “Love Remembered by Seasons”
"First love is the definition of longing.
You, whom I met suddenly, soon became my first love.
And you, who left so easily, soon came back to me with longing.
--- 「3.
From “The Meaning of First Love”
"I thought things would get better with time, I thought I'd forget with time, but somehow, it seems like you're becoming clearer."
--- 「4.
From "The Pain of Parting"
"I just want to say that I miss you.
Forgetting doesn't mean erasing you from memory, it just means becoming numb.
“Emotions, memories, even love.”
--- 「5.
From “The Essence of Longing”
"I just loved you because you were you.
I loved you for no other reason than being you.
Maybe I'll spend my whole life holding you in my arms.
This is my destiny, my predestined fate.
--- 「6.
From "The Fate of Love"
"Unbearable depression.
Eyes wide open and unfocused with tears welling up.
All of this was so depressing that even I, unable to bear the depression, would fall into the depths."
--- 「7.
From "The Depth of Melancholy"
"I don't want to live anymore.
Please watch me quietly.
I want to go into the darkness with no end in sight.
I hope tomorrow never comes.
--- 「8.
From "Moment of Despair"
"It doesn't have to be okay.
It's okay to be frustrated and sad.
You will use this point as a stepping stone to climb higher.
“You are still sowing seeds, and soon they will begin to sprout.”
--- 「9.
From “Message of Comfort”
"The waves will wash your heart.
If you sit quietly on the beach, the waves that come one by one will silently cleanse your heart.
The waves are always waiting for you in the name of gentle comfort."
--- 「10.
From “Completion of Healing”
From “Completion of Healing”
Publisher's Review
"Our Love Practice in Summer" is a collection of poems that, while traditional lyric poetry focuses on the refinement and sublimation of emotions, seeks poetic perfection in revealing raw emotions.
Poet Hwang Seo-hyeon's language is not flashy.
Rather, it is ordinary and routine.
But in that ordinariness, all the emotions of youth are vividly contained.
The simple sentence, "I just want to say I miss you," resonates with readers because it is the language of the most genuine emotions.
What makes this collection of poems particularly noteworthy is that it does not simply deal with love and separation.
While honestly depicting the deep depression, suicidal impulses, and despair that come after a breakup, it ultimately concludes with a message of healing and hope.
This provides empathy and comfort for the psychological pain that young people in Korean society are currently experiencing.
The composition is also dense.
Chapters 1 through 3 sequentially depict the process of love, separation, and depression, and the final part has a complete narrative structure that delivers a message of comfort and healing.
While each psalm can be read independently, the entire work displays the completeness of a long epic poem.
Above all, this collection of poems achieved a unique poetic achievement through the seasonal metaphor of 'summer.'
By comparing a loved one to summer and symbolizing the loss of that person as the changing of seasons, he elevated personal experience into universal lyricism.
In a world where modern poetry is alienating readers due to its difficulty and abstractness, this collection is significant in that it restores the original function of poetry: to be easily readable by anyone while still providing deep emotion.
Poet Hwang Seo-hyeon's language is not flashy.
Rather, it is ordinary and routine.
But in that ordinariness, all the emotions of youth are vividly contained.
The simple sentence, "I just want to say I miss you," resonates with readers because it is the language of the most genuine emotions.
What makes this collection of poems particularly noteworthy is that it does not simply deal with love and separation.
While honestly depicting the deep depression, suicidal impulses, and despair that come after a breakup, it ultimately concludes with a message of healing and hope.
This provides empathy and comfort for the psychological pain that young people in Korean society are currently experiencing.
The composition is also dense.
Chapters 1 through 3 sequentially depict the process of love, separation, and depression, and the final part has a complete narrative structure that delivers a message of comfort and healing.
While each psalm can be read independently, the entire work displays the completeness of a long epic poem.
Above all, this collection of poems achieved a unique poetic achievement through the seasonal metaphor of 'summer.'
By comparing a loved one to summer and symbolizing the loss of that person as the changing of seasons, he elevated personal experience into universal lyricism.
In a world where modern poetry is alienating readers due to its difficulty and abstractness, this collection is significant in that it restores the original function of poetry: to be easily readable by anyone while still providing deep emotion.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: July 30, 2025
- Page count, weight, size: 172 pages | 128*188*20mm
- ISBN13: 9791194947196
- ISBN10: 1194947190
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