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Your Space—How to live as a tree

Author

Yoo Heekyung

Publisher

ACHIMDALBOOKS

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Young Adult
Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #Poem
  • #Remembrance
  • #Sorrow

Copyright Contact

Son Moonkyung

  • Publication Date

    2018-09-10
  • No. of pages

    76
  • ISBN

    9791195832989
  • Dimensions

    125 * 190
Overview

The poet compares the times and memories of her life with trees

Book Intro

Achimdalbooks Poetry Series No.1 is the poet Yoo Heekyung's second book of poems in which she delineates the forlorn scenery of her inner being. The poet compares the times and memories of her life with trees. The premise of the book is that the trees, which numerically match her age, grew to form a forest. 

 

The poet imparts thirty-nine meanings into thirty-nine poems, the same number as her age. Seen from afar, it looks like a forest but on closer look, all the different trees stand in their places; similarly, the poet posts a poem in all phases of her life as a poetic guidepost. The scenes, composed of different species, sizes, meanings, and purposes make a book of poems that is a forest, in effect, herself. There is a path in the forest. The trees and their in-between spaces create a forest as does the trees and our distance from them. The poet reflects on her past but does not say anything about her recollection—instead she asks a question in return. In that moment, time, which unfurls on the horizon, halts vertically and a poem is born. 

 

Furthermore, each of the poems also signifies an annual ring of the tree. That is why this book of poems can be viewed as a stalwart tree with thirty-eight annual rings. The poet thinks about a "specific time" of her self that is growing like a tree. She confesses that she is unsure of this hour. At some point, her emotions could remain there and leave a deep trace like a node but it isn’t something she is sure of. "I," who have willfully become a tree upon meeting "you," cannot touch or embrace you. There is a gap between "I" and "you." This is where a poem is born. What can be perceived in all her poems is the poetic will to create a distance so that she could yearn instead for eternal time, before "I" could incorporate "you," of whom I desire so ardently, into "I" so that there would be no more longing. This poetic space is the new attitude of the poet that was hitherto unseen and a new poem borne of Yoo Heekyung’s previous works.

About the Author

Yoo Heekyung



Yoo Heekyung was born in Seoul in 1980 and made her literary debut in 2008, winning the annual spring literary contest by Chosun Ilbo. Yoo, a member of the literary circle "Jakran". Yoo Heekyung wrote the following books of poems: Vocabulary of This Morning, Your Space-How to Grow as a Tree, A God to Us, Briefly. Yoo is the author of The Twinkling Words of the Night, a collection of essays. Yoo co-authored the play, The Things You Have Lost. Yoo is the winner of Contemporary Literature (Hyundae Munhak) Award. 

 

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