Author: Kim Byung-ho
Translated by: Brother Anthony of Taizé
Publisher: Asia Publishers, 2023
Original title: 몸으로 부르는 연가, 2023
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I want to love, I want to hug, I want to be together, I want to be together and look at the same place, but it doesn’t work out. It seems to work but it doesn’t, it seems to work but it doesn’t work. It’s not just an erotic relationship. The appearance of thirst among people is almost similar. In this way, the emotional reaction that occurs to us when we encounter an unbridgeable gap between life and desire is sorrow. Most poems are wandering lost somewhere.
From“ Poet’s Essay”
Kim Byung-ho’s poetry continues to communicate with humor while going through the processes of observation, diagnosis, subversion, and reflection. Throughout his collection of poems, the poet’s eyes keenly gaze at the evil and horror of reality. This point must not be missed. He is the inventor of love and the physicist of laughter who explains the shame of the corrupt modern society and the desires of modern people in a unique style.
Ham Giseok (Poet)
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