- Overview
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This is a collection of children's poems for meetings and healing created by the heart of a father.
- Book Intro
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This is the first collection of Song Jingwon, a poet who has captured attention from the literary world by the beauty of soft language, enchanting melodies, and poems with ardent feelings. Starting his literary career by winning an award for fledgling poets by Changbi, he published his first collection of poems Growing Stone (2011, Changbi). In 2012, he also published How to Draw a Bird and With a Foxtail Mustache Uncle and Southern Crabgrass Umbrella Aunt in the January and February issue of Meeting Children's Poems, a literary magazine. By reading children's poems, the poet traced back the childhood memories that were still alive in his heart. He once said, "Children's poems are words I just swallowed in my mouth. I'll now enjoy writing them without any hesitation". (2014, Let' Go Pick Bluestems, Meeting Children's Poems, July and August Issue)
The temporal and spatial space of his childhood, the center of his poetic world, is "a place where wounds and an abyss exist" and expressed as "the rhythm through which sorrow and futility can be endured". But in the collection of children's poems, this turns into a space of encountering and healing, where a hidden identity is called upon and consoled and the statue of the separated world is represented. This is an outcome generated by the father's mind to pass down a better world to his children and his wish to tell a story about his world. At the same time, the poem proposes a possibility for communication between parents and children, reminding them of how beautiful the world we lost used to be. By doing so, this book embodies a hopeful world where past and present walk hand in hand toward the future.
- About the Author
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Song Jingwon
Born in 1970 in Okcheon in the North Chungcheong province of Korea, Song Jingwon graduated from Korea National Open University with a degree in Korean Language and Literature. Song started his career as a writer in 2004 with The Broken Bone and his four other works winning the Changbi New Poet Award. Song Jingwon, currently a member of the Young Poem poet group, has written the collection of poems The Growing Rock.
Song Jiyeon
Born in 1965 in Seoul, Song Jiyeon studied oriental painting at Seoul National University and the graduate school of the same university. Having left for Paris in 1990 and studied painting for 7 years, Song returned to Korea in 1997 and has since been drawing pictures, participating in several individual and group exhibitions. Novels for adolescents with illustrations done by Song Jiyeon include My Sister Sookja.
- Recommendation
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"This children’s poem, dedicated to the restoration of the world before its separation and demolition, paradoxically reminds us of the beauty of our lost world." - Lee An (poet), 2014
- Selection
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Munich International Youth Library, 2015, White Raven Book
