- Overview
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Park Jung-dae’s poems follow the tradition of lyric poetry, while firmly establishing themselves as experimental poems based on deconstructive metalanguage.
- Book Intro
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Park’s recent poetry collection, divided into four chapters, resonates "like a passage sung by soulful gypsies" (by Literary Critic Heo Hyejeong).
Park writes his poems in a way that sometimes babbles without limit and sometimes extremely restricts the use of language. His poetic interpretation sufficiently depicts the world seen and revealed by the poet himself. Yet, he does not follow the grammar of existence observed by images and motifs. Heo says, “Park breaks the linearity of chronicle order and builds a small passage in the psychological landscape undisturbed by the present or past.” The images of candlelight, tears, music, Peru, the boundaries of butterfly, moon, flame, liquor, cigarette, and moonlight are repeated, go through various transformations, and gain new meanings. In this way, Park portrays the unreachable eternity and the stuffiness of the moment.
- About the Author
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Park Jung-dae
Park Jung-dae was born in 1965 in Jeongseon, Gangwon Province. He studied Korean literature at Korea University and made his literary debut in 1990 when he won the Munhaksasang Literary Award with six poems including “Aesthetics of Candlelight.” He published the poetry collection Fragments in 1997 and has been working as an editor-in-chief of Mokryeon Tongshin and is a member of the Sugar-free Cigarette Club.
