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The Arboretum

Author

Eugene Mok

Publisher

ACHIMDALBOOKS

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Young Adult
Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #Poetry
  • #Plants
  • #Women
  • #Death

Copyright Contact

Son Moonkyung

  • Publication Date

    2018-09-10
  • No. of pages

    88
  • ISBN

    9791195832996
  • Dimensions

    125 * 190
Overview

The lives and experiences of women are delineated in a not-too-familiar and sensuous language.

Book Intro

Invitation to a cool and odd realm

 

Achimdalbooks Poetry Series No. 2 is a collection of poems by Yu Jin-mok who writes about women’s lives and experiences in a peculiar yet sensuous language. The book contains pictures and poems. Most of the poems have a title taken from a plant’s name. The poet shows the memories, pain, love, and death that a person experiences through a body, like a scene from a film. 

 

The life of a tree that is remembered via a person’s body

 

Imagine the life of a plant. When it was a seed, then a bud, forming a thick green forest, bearing fruit, and when the times comes, dropping its branches to return to earth—and that life cycle is repeated. 

 

The Arboretum presents stories by someone who remembers her previous life as a tree and expresses her feelings about this life in the language of a plant. It could perhaps be she is imprisoned in a person’s body and is now recording the life of a tree. 

 

At times, she relates the crucial moments in a person’s life that reads like a screenplay in the borrowed form of a poem. The names of trees, like the palm, sacred bamboo, Benjamin fig, cedar, and rose tree appear in each of the poems as if it were a journal by the trees. 

 

The poet invites the reader to a bizarrely beautiful world through a place called the arboretum in a language that is uniquely her own. She tells us it is the place we departed from but she foretells it is also the world we will certainly return to and therefore we should rest assured. 

About the Author

Eugene Mok



Eugene Mok was born in Dongdaemun, Seoul, in 1981. Until 2015, she was involved in the film industry where she participated in the making of seven feature length films and documentaries. She continues to produce short films and music videos through her one-person production company Moknyunsa. Her poetry collections include The Birth of a Writer (2020), The Arboretum (2018), A Book on Romance (2016), and her prose collections include Walks and Relationships (2020) and Dysoctavia (2017). She runs the bookstore Sonmokseoga in Yeongdo, Busan.

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