- Overview
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This is a poetry book that conveys deep meanings with simple words while presenting new worlds with familiar language habits.
- Book Intro
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We Love Ambience, the 38th volume in the Munhakdongne Poetry Collection series, presents a new paradigm in Korean poetry. It is the second book of poetry by poet Oh Eun, who began her career with Modern Poetry in the spring of 2002. This book consists of 58 poems full of distinctive black humor and criticisms of society and civilization.
Included are works such as Cover Story, Sauna, To Understand People of Culture, The Era of Consumption, Suspicious, and Stray Thoughts About the Chequered Blue Butterfly, all of which make use of homophony, assonance, and anastrophism in fresh, rhythmic prose. Readers will be able to get a glimpse of Oh's own unique world of poetry through various poems that demonstrate his unusual grasp of the Korean language.
- About the Author
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Oh Eun
Oh Eun was born in Jeongeub in the North Jeolla Province of Korea in 1982. He graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in Sociology and received an MA from KAIST Culture Technology. Books created by Oh Eun include the poetry collection Pigs in a Hotel Tassel, a book about robots and epics called You Are a Dangerous Robot. Oh wrote the following books of poems: We Love Ambience, Being to Being, The Heart of Left Hand Hurts, and I Had a Name. And a book about colors and drawings called You, Me and Yellow and Coaxing. He is a current member of the literary circle 'Jakran'. His favorite moments are the times he spends spacing out and slacking off. Oh is the winner of Park In-hwan, Gusang, Hyundae, and Daesan Literature Awards.
