Like many younger Korean poets, SHIM BO-SEON writes in an allusive, indirect style about topics that are in themselves familiar, eating rice, taking off clothes, living in an apartment block, struggling with human relationships. He captures some sparkling moments of joys and sorrows, hopes and frustrations that have been concealed in daily life in rather modest and witty words. The circular movements of concealment and revelation of the mystery that an individual experiences are evoked in turn, always lightly. As a poet-critic, Shim fills his lines with the melodies of plain speech, with subtle thoughts about relationships in the world. Shim made his poetic debut in 1994, but he only published his first collection fourteen years later in 2008. FIFTEEN SECONDS WITHOUT SORROW is a translation of that first volume, containing the poet's earliest, freshest poems.
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Fifteen Seconds without Sorrow
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Table of contents
- Translators’ Preface
- Evolutions of Sorrow
- Parting after a Meal
- Today, I
- A Ruin Very Brief ly Shining
- Fifteen Seconds without Sorrow
- “Rubber Soul”
- Things That Lead Me to Disillusionment
- An Unavoidable Road
- Scenery
- Going Shopping
- My Wife’s Magic
- Moral and Aesthetic Meditation Inside an Elevator
- Bread, Coat, Heart
- Illusion
- Delusion Bus
- Downfall
- When We Were Boys and Girls
- I Laugh, I Have To
- Peaceful Holiday
- Two
- If It Were Not for Songs
- Acrobat of Clouds and Fogs
- You
- A Rumor I Cannot Deal With
- The Myth of the Child
- Dust or Ruins
- A Hungry Father
- My Dancing Queen
- A Poem in -ing
- A Thousand-Year-Old Metaphysician
- Hands Becoming Normal
- On Religion
- The Last Dessert
- Once He Envied the Life of a Golden Telegraph Pole
- Night Deepening in Pastoral Mode
- Outside of That
- Blow, Wind!
- The Relationship between Nature and Me Since the 18th Century
- Youth
- In my Thirties
- Song of a Golden Sleeve
- Every Time I Pass This Place
- Happy Birthday
- The World Is Delicious
- Growth Record
- Madman’s Road
- One Day We Went to the Bank
- Then, That Day, Walks
- Inheritance
- Father, When I Recall Our Old Home
- Escape Route
- Home Withdrawing
- Losing a Hometown
- A Letter
- Probable, Very Probable
- The Last Game of Tennis with Her
- Floating Words
- Treading on Footprints, I Head for the Future
- About the Author
- About the Translators
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