- Overview
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This book is the main collection of poems written by Hwang Incheon who is recognized as one of the promising young poets in South Korea.
- Book Intro
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Hwang is a young man who finds his soul writing poems unbearable. Hwang is a poet who loves a child named poetry. His second poetry collection is out in the world. The poet has started his career as a poet brilliantly when his poetry collection Washing the Myna won the 31st Kim Soo-young Literary Award. In his latest collection A Strange World, he confronts the history of Korean literature. The confrontation is a struggle against the manualized tradition and also a conflict with himself who is about to conform to tradition.
Among the contemporary young writers whose identity has weakened, Hwang expresses his unique thoughts and sensitivity through his works. While resisting to embrace the history of Korean literature, he is intuitively aware of the inevitable defeat or inevitable subjugation to it. He sneers at the manualized tradition and resists to accept any teachings. Yet, in any way, this poetic hikikomori steps into the world again as though darkness mixes with the morning light. His challenge against the history of Korean literature ends here.
Who will the winner of the confrontation in which his narrators who seem to be in romantic relationships have fought in the traditional street of Jongno? Is it us who has developed a sense of guilt? Or is it them who has brought a sense of guilt? It is difficult to judge who is the winner or loser. After reading through Hwang's poems, we could only develop a lifetime sense of guilt, carrying the fact that the ruling has ended on our back. And Hwang is appointed as a new pioneer of modernism. But he has refused to become a dwarf sitting on the crown of a giant's head. Rather, he has chosen to become a giant of modernism himself in the Korean poetry circle to change the giant's posture, attitude, attire, and tone of speaking.
- About the Author
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Hwang Inchan