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When Somebody Calls Somebody, I Looked Back

Author

Shin Yong-mok

Publisher

Changbi Publishers, Inc.

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #Korean poetry
  • #literature
  • #poetry

Copyright Contact

Bang Ally

  • Publication Date

    2017-07-21
  • No. of pages

    184
  • ISBN

    9788936424114
  • Dimensions

    125 * 200
Overview

This book is a beautiful but cruel poetry collection which consists of solid poems that are well organized with subtle metaphors and sophisticated images.

Book Intro

Shin Yong-mok reveals his poetic world in which the width of thoughts and the height of senses toward the existence and the present age have been expanded through the reflection of society into literature. This is “a beautiful but cruel collection of poems” (from the commentary by a poet Heo Sugyeong) that is well organized with subtle metaphors and sophisticated images created by the poet who looks into the sorrow and wounds of life with sympathy. When Somebody Calls Somebody, I Looked Back includes a total of 70 poems featuring “the community” and 9 other poems that have won the 2017 Contemporary Poetry Award.

Shin stares at the low and shady areas and faces the dark world, living with the pain inherent in life. In a world where “people cry while saying they are happy and laugh while saying they are sad” (from Nice and Good People) are always “deprived of the most precious things” in their lives, the poet realizes that “their sorrows cannot be washed away by any rain” (from Flash) and “sorrow and body might be the one” (from Fall, Sorrow, and Birds). While agonizing over how to endure this dark age, he documents the “love, sorrow, and rage” (from From Yellow to Red) of those who live in an "any-day city" without prospects in sincere language, bringing forward the truth of life.

The poet does not choose to simply ignore the numerous deaths and “all the loneliness of the world” (from Those Days) and endure it all in silence. Against the absurdity of a life in which “When half the people believe lies / half of the lies become truths” (from Half Revealed Lie), he believes that “Even a single person can form a crowd in broken glasses” (from Magic for All of Us) and makes up his mind to open a transparent world, casting a ray of light toward the upcoming future. For sorrow is not something one has to take alone, as shown in the passage “I feel the pain of your body / as you suffer from my body” (from Half Revealed Lie). Shin brings back “the dream of being expelled out of your body” (from Because I Know) and dreams of a world of “us” that encompasses “you” and “I,” even when being driven to despair by “the death known as daily life.”

About the Author

Shin Yong-mok



Shin Yong-mok was born in 1974 in Geochang, South Gyeongsang Province. Shin started his career as a writer in 2000, winning the New Writer’s Literary Award of The World of Writers. Collections of poems Shin has created include I Must Walk Through All the Wind, The Millionth Molar of the Wind, The City of Anyday and When Somebody Calls Somebody, I Looked Back. Collections of essays Shin has written include We Will Live Like This.

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