- Overview
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Poet Park Siha describes how she feels about Chopin and his music in sections of “discovery,” “dissonance,” and “oblivion” and through the themes of “encounter,” “love,” “parting,” and “conversation.”
- Book Intro
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Series of “poems immersed in print,” essays that feature poems and drawings
The first story -- Chopin
And Park Siha who waits for Chopin
Poems immersed in print is a series of essays that feature poems and drawings, which Alma introduces after a long period of preparation. In this series, the author, who is a poet, meets an artist whom she admires and is inspired by, and has a heart-to-heart conversation with the artist. Sometimes the poet and the artist exchange letters and share each other’s interests, and sometimes they just gaze at each other and tell each other what is on their minds through poems, music, and drawings.
The first artist from this series of poems immersed in print is Frederic Chopin, who is one of Korea’s most popular classical musicians and has become even more popular because of Dong-Hyek Lim, a famous Korean pianist known as a Chopin specialist. Park Siha, a poet who discovers small miracles in life through her own stylistic language, meets Chopin, who is often called the poet of the piano. A Person Who Waits for Chopin is a symbolic work that opens the gate to the series of poems immersed in print.
Poet Park Siha describes how she feels about Chopin and his music in sections of “discovery,” “dissonance,” and “oblivion” and through the themes of “encounter,” “love,” “parting,” and “conversation.” Through her ordinary life, where she meets Chopin, the author subtly reveals not only the beauty of the musician’s music, but also the dazzling emotions from the universe of Chopin and the secrets between Chopin and herself.
- About the Author
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Park Siha
Park Siha was born in Seoul and studied visual design at Ewha Womans University. She made her literary debut when she won Writer World’s New Writer Award in 2008. Her published works include the collection of poems The Society of Snowmen and This Is What Our Conversation Is Like and the collection of essays Subway Reading Traveler.
Kim Hyunjeong
Kim Hyunjeong was born and raised in Seoul. She majored in molding plane at Duksung Women’s University and the Korea National University of Arts. She won the Arts Council Korea Artist Fund for Emerging Artists Award in 2008. She captures the point where scenes in her memory meet the present and creates a drawing focused on senses. Kim has held six solo exhibitions, including Always Somewhere in 2009 and Desire in 2012, and has participated in several group exhibitions.