Part 1

List of things that are missing
Nobody, nobody, but you
Maladjustment period
Teacher's Book
Your genius deficiency and first depression
Toxic
The Thief and the Gentleman
law-abiding boy

Part 2

Motel and Moth
Motels and Humans
Motel and remote control
Motel and toilet
Motel and Mirror
Motel and refrigerator
Moth Man

Part 3

In search of eternal embrace
Documentaries about animals
Fragile and round faith
reflected light
World Literature and Lemonade
Unexpected luck
perennial plants
empty channel
After the revelation

Part 4

The root cause of bad weather
Human's share
Hold'em
Gacha Gyaru
Mindfulness Meditation
The twelfth proof that he exists
Medication Instructions
A room just for a room

Essay: Superficial Questions

Commentary: It's Too Early to Fall in Love

A gaze of deep love that will save ruined dreams and lives
A desperate record of humanity only

Poet Yoo Seon-hye, who thrilled many poetry readers with “the sentences of the soul” (Jo Yeon-jeong) that “grope the remains of love” in her first poetry collection, “Read Love and Extinction Again,” shows a fierce sense of crisis with her new collection, “Motel and Butterfly,” with even more precise language and a more accurate sense of pain.


In 『Motel and the Butterfly』, which consists of four parts, the second part, which is particularly noteworthy, consists of the 'Motel' series, including the title work.
Through the special space of a motel, it sharply and persistently reproduces human desire, violence, internalized falsehood, and a sense of disgust, and denounces the social structure that makes people perceive themselves as 'moths' who have turned their backs on the light.
Meanwhile, he succeeds in portraying the motel as a “microcosm of the world” (“Motel and Refrigerator”), recording the universal struggle of human beings to survive.
“Humans are beings who simply want to “live” rather than “disappear” (“The Motel and the Moth”).
Therefore, he struggles at every moment to shake off his “desire to die” (Motel and Mirror) and to restore his ruined dreams and life that have reached “a point where nothing can be done” (Motel and Butterfly).
This is why the desperate struggle to move toward the light, knowing that it will burn out, is read as a search for hope.


In addition, the stage called ‘school’ is also a poetic space that occupies a considerable portion of the poetry collection.
By highlighting the exclusion, incomprehensible discrimination, and silent violence and absurdity experienced in these everyday places, the work delicately sculpts the image of perpetrator and victim.
However, the speaker does not sink into confusion and depression or self-pity.
Instead, it is similar to the Motel series in that it coolly and meticulously invents its own methods of overcoming and survival strategies, finds a reason to live, and strengthens its will to live.

Even as we fill each page of our notebook with words like suicide, apocalypse, and hell, we remember the solidarity that prays for “your happiness,” send you the message that “I am the one who loved your lack more than anyone else” (“Your Genius Deficiency and First Melancholy”), and never forget to thank you for “enduring me” (“Moth Man”). We wait for, love, and ultimately save someone who will understand and embrace each other’s pain and wounds until the end.
The poet's attitude of not speaking rashly of hope, but not withdrawing his "deep gaze of love" (Gomyungjae Go) stems from the belief that only humans have the sole possibility of saving humanity from "extinction."
“This is why this kind of poetic work is so necessary for our poetry today” (Choi Da-young).

Finn Series Essay

The essays attached to the "Modern Literature Pin Series" poet selection begin as a unique genre that is no different from reading the poet's inner self.
This allows readers to approach the poet's intimate world, which they had only felt through poetry, in a more concrete and in-depth way.
Furthermore, the fact that this essay is an invitation to the poets' deep inner self, expanding the scope of their free space of thought and revealing their own unique emotions, is a fascinating aspect that can only be found in the Pin Poet Collection.


'I decided to live, I decided to live'
A Childhood Written in the World of Letterpress

"Questions That Run Around" is an essay that calmly unravels the memories of loneliness and deprivation that dominated my childhood.
A child who is unable to share topics with his peers and is always alone, wandering around the class, ends up exaggerating his actions and isolating himself to avoid getting hurt in relationships.
Then, by chance, the girl slips into the “land of letters” and soon breaks free from ostentatious reading, finds solace in the cozy scent and warmth of books, and, captivated by the “secrets of paper and ink,” gains the courage to explain the imperfect scenes of her childhood in a convincing way as the reason for life.
'I decided to stay alive.
This special coming-of-age story, which contains the story of a time when I muttered, “I’ve decided to live,” and gave strength to my broken knees, a time when I was able to get through it safely through books and writing, is as intimate as a secret diary, yet candid and blunt, and is a flawless answer to the question that runs through the entire text, “Why do humans write?”