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Lightly into your hell
Lightly into your hell
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Book Introduction
Kim Ha-neul, who debuted in 2012 with Poetry and Anti-Poetry, has published her second poetry collection, Gently Drifting Into Your Hell, as Typist Poet Series No. 012.
This collection of poems, published nine years after his first collection of poems, "Sham Tomato," meticulously explores the deepest layers of loss and love, and shows the face of language that is revealed only when a person's emotions reach rock bottom.

Kim Ha-neul's poetry, with its language originating from the darkest points of life, reconstructs the poet's world like a myth.
In that world, shadows of loss and fragments of love intertwine, revealing dark yet dazzling sentences.
He records the trajectory of love that manifests itself in the form of hell, and gazes at the face of emotion that can only be seen after sorrow has passed.
As critic Jeon So-young said in her recommendation, love reveals its true form in the “resistance of sadness” and the “buoyancy of relief.”
"Into Your Hell" is a record of love that endlessly returns after passing through the very hell of love.
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Part 1

This is our existence/ What have we become as we grow/ The skeleton of a newborn/ A heavy snow warning was issued that day/ Unexplained stories/ My loneliness is aesthetics/ Prussian blue/ Lose or save/ My microcosm/ A depressed worker/ A ten-won life/ Please wait 70 minutes/ The evil assigned to us

Part 2


I am compassion itself / I love your scent / To the hatching winter / When it snows, I need no excuses / I need to be miserable / Pit a pat / I hope my melancholy is worth it / Microbe / How should I always live

Part 3


Winter mood/NEAR AND DEAR/Just a list of us/Immature winter night/Cheap coffee/A dreamer's common love song/My love is Gothic/A lively will/An extra confession/Unhappy bitch

Part 4


The Most Thrilling Form of Melancholy/Will You Buy Me Today?/Strange Lack/No Love to Renew/Classic Surplus/Sometimes Thoughtful/Impersonality/Midnight/Handle with Care/Lucid Dreamer/Bad Dream/SOO

Prose_I wish convenience stores sold salvation too

Into the book
Even after reading the letter from that day, which said that it was a season that made even the inside of clothes feel cold.
There is a temperature in my records, if that becomes your narrative.
If we were to give a name to this involuntary love, no, this is a nonsensical tale called love.
Maybe I am your limit that has banished you.
So, the hell that is being me.
--- From "This is our existence"

Friends who only thought about death when the sun rose and their eyes opened
I got a job in Seoul, had a child, and met the Lord.
No, there's one in the columbarium too
--- From "What We Became When We Grew Up"

Slippery snow is always uncomfortable, and I hate the 'winter where it's all about you' that makes me fall into vague feelings.
I hate that I have to make resolutions like 'I won't die next year' in my diary at the end of the year.
Maybe it's a good thing I don't have the courage.
How long can I pursue you in this city where a heavy snow warning is issued whenever I forget?
--- From "A heavy snow warning was issued that day"

Because life isn't always one lucky night in Iceland.
I'm just here
Pray for loneliness like tar
19 seconds passed
This lonely impurity that amazes the body
My solitude is aesthetic,
I promise you'll like it
--- From "My Solitude is Aesthetics"

As our smooth life slowly erodes away, we embrace with melancholy, remembering the times when we served with true love.

The habit of crying while lying down isn't pretty.
I want to throw away candies that are too sweet and don't melt.
I don't imagine a future that will be a sin
Because we are all just human
--- From "Prussian Blue"

So, you know there is a god who is constantly being banished? Coming through the light, coming through the air, coming through the throat of a bird.
In the big dream, there is me and there is you.
They say that at the lowest point there is a fallen god.
So Christmas never came?
--- From "Lose or Save"

Everyone will eventually hate me, so why are you acting so nice now? I was glad you called me a spirited person that day, and I'm grateful you told me you'd despise me forever. I can already feel my pulse turning sour, and I'm convinced this is the most thrilling form of depression. I know because I've been wrong countless times.

It's a good thing we broke up so easily without hurting each other.
--- From "The Most Thrilling Form of Depression"

My profession is a poet
My main job is being a crazy bitch, that's me
I usually watch documentaries and eat mala-tang.
If you're bored, watch the National Geographic Channel.
Aren't you curious about the self-reliance of life and things like that?
What will the world be like after humans?
--- From "Classical Surplus"

Publisher's Review
“I am your limit, banished from you.

So, it's hell to exist as me."

A love sentence that arrives in the form of hell
A record of a being born from the shadow of despair

Kim Ha-neul, who debuted in 2012 with Poetry and Anti-Poetry, has published her second poetry collection, Gently Drifting Into Your Hell, as Typist Poet Series No. 012.
This collection of poems, published nine years after his first collection of poems, "Sham Tomato," meticulously explores the deepest layers of loss and love, and shows the face of language that is revealed only when a person's emotions reach rock bottom.

I was so scared of dying that I was saved by you.
I want to smell your breath, which I remember under my nose, forever and ever.
Sometimes I give birth to you like a young mother and then kill you.
- From "This is our existence"

The first poem in this collection, “This is Our Existence,” begins in the midst of the great vibrations caused by the absence of “you.”
The poet describes the cyclicality of loss with the repetitive image of “like a young mother giving birth to you and then killing you,” but this is not a simple recollection, but a wave of emotion accompanied by disillusionment and ecstasy.
Kim Ha-neul's poetic speaker pours his body and mind into embracing the existence that has already been lost, and creates sentences that translate absence into existence again.
The existence of 'you' has disappeared from reality, but in the poet's language, it burns with white light and is constantly revived.
In this way, loss is not a separation, but rather the origin of an even more intense love.

A language that seeks to live by recording

Friends who only thought about death when the sun rose and their eyes opened
I got a job in Seoul, had a child, and met the Lord.
No, there's one in the columbarium too
-From "What We Became When We Grew Up"

In Kim Ha-neul's poetry, "I" and "you" are often divided into images of body and soul, life and death, salvation and destruction, yet simultaneously intertwined. Poems like "What We Grew Up to Become" traverse the tragic scenes of youth, recording maturity not as a fulfillment of life, but as a process closer to disappearance.
For Kim Ha-neul, the sense of life is filled with distorted images such as “a ten-won life,” “a rotting bouquet,” and “a cowardly shining crystal,” and on top of those fragments, “I” and “you” constantly lick each other, stare at each other, get jealous, and push each other away again.

A relationship that blooms only in the dark

At the end of winter, on the day you count your front teeth
I hope I can tear it apart without hesitation for even a single day.
It wasn't a trivial affection,
So that I can confirm your health
So that you can leave a message of encouragement

Thank you for loving a heart-fluttering human being
-From "Pit a pat"

Animal images such as cats, butterflies, winter beasts, and microbes appear repeatedly in Kim Ha-neul's poetry.
In particular, the cat-like symbols “cats twitching their tails,” “transparent noses,” “green eyes,” and the body’s movements of swallowing cries every night are frequently seen.
They are repeated like symbols revealing true feelings that human language cannot capture.
Kim Ha-neul's narrator paradoxically reveals the imperfection of human relationships by translating emotions that cannot be explained in human language, such as signs of depression and the voice of love, into the gestures and senses of animals.
Several poems in Part 3, through this animalistic sense, break the relationship between 'you' and 'me' out of the existing ethical framework and return it to the state before life and death.


Rescuing each other from 'your hell'

This collection of poems shares a deep continuity with her first collection, "Sham Tomato," yet it follows a distinctly different trajectory. While "Sham Tomato" was a love song stained with pain, an explosive sense of division, and a sharp beauty, "Slightly Into Your Hell" is a collection of poems that deals with the debris after the explosion.
Picking up the broken pieces, looking at the relationship from where it collapsed, we ask the question, 'Why do we end up walking towards each other?'
Over the course of nine years, the poet's language has become deeper, calmer, and more precise.

Kim Ha-neul's poetry, with its language originating from the darkest points of life, reconstructs the poet's world like a myth.
In that world, shadows of loss and fragments of love intertwine, revealing dark yet dazzling sentences.
He records the trajectory of love that manifests itself in the form of hell, and gazes at the face of emotion that can only be seen after sorrow has passed.
As critic Jeon So-young said in her recommendation, love reveals its true form in the “resistance of sadness” and the “buoyancy of relief.”
"Into Your Hell" is a record of love that endlessly returns after passing through the very hell of love.


Poet's words

We are ghosts trapped in letters,
If you read me, I will become a butterfly
I'll come play in your hell.


November 2025
Kim Ha-neul
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: November 30, 2025
- Page count, weight, size: 140 pages | 120*190*20mm
- ISBN13: 9791199365384
- ISBN10: 1199365386

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