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Worrying about Stepping on a Flower

Author

Jang Seoknam

Publisher

Changbi Publishers, Inc.

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #Korean poetry
  • #literature
  • #poetry

Copyright Contact

Bang Ally

  • Publication Date

    2017-12-08
  • No. of pages

    110
  • ISBN

    9788936424176
  • Dimensions

    128 * 188
Overview

This book presents simple and clear words along with finely captured images creating sophisticated poems that show the essence of lyrical poetry and send a gentle shudder down the spines of readers.

Book Intro

Worrying about Stepping on a Flower is Jang Seoknam’s poetry collection that has been published five years after the publication of Tranquility, Do Not Run Away (Munhakdongne, 2012), which won her the 2012 Kim Daljin Literary Award. In this collection, Jang unfolds the world of lyrical poetry, asking the question “What does the most fundamental human being, the most humane human being, or the most beautiful human being look like?” (from the commentary by literary critic Shin Hyeongcheol).

Simple and clear words along with finely captured images create sophisticated poems that show the essence of lyrical poetry and send a gentle shudder down the spines of readers.

“I walked, letting butterflies fly onto my sleeves / I returned, requesting naturalization on the rocks / The reply was delayed / The green on every inch of my clothes was heavy, impeding my pace / I returned, being starved by the green rocks / The reply was delayed” (from Picnic).

Jang appeals to the readers' senses by portraying the hidden backsides of objects with moderate poetic language and narrates deep philosophical thoughts. He seeks a poor but honest life in which he strolls around a secluded world separated from worldly desires, contemplating nature and communing with "a Bible that resembles a long shadow at nightfall” (from Memo from Travel).

After going through digging up and uncovering the breath of life from a grief-filled life that had only “a piece of a rag throughout its entire lifetime” (from Singing Deodeok) and enduring “life without fabrics, feces and urine, and sperm” (from The Pillow I Picked Up) and the “days of dealing with despair, lying on my back” (from Dazzling), the poet comes to a wise conclusion, as though achieving a form of Zen enlightenment, that “managing the rising fire / will teach you a lifetime lesson” (from Bonfire) and gains an existential insight into finite life and infinite death.

About the Author

Jang Seoknam



Jang Seoknam was born in Incheon in 1965. Jang made his literary debut in 1987 by winning the annual spring literary contest hosted by Kyunghyang Shinmun. Collections of poems Jang has created include The Exile to the Birds, Barely Missing Anyone Now and The Wet Eyes. Collections of short essays Jang has written include The Water Stop and The Sound of Drawing Water. Jang has won many awards, including the Kim Sooyoung Literary Award, Hyundai Literary Award, Midang Literary Award, and Kim Daljin Literary Award, and he currently works as a professor of Literary Creation at Hanyang Women’s University.

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