Fifteen Seconds without Sorrow
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Fifteen Seconds without Sorrow

  1. 84 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Fifteen Seconds without Sorrow

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Translators’ Preface
  2. Evolutions of Sorrow
  3. Parting after a Meal
  4. Today, I
  5. A Ruin Very Brief ly Shining
  6. Fifteen Seconds without Sorrow
  7. “Rubber Soul”
  8. Things That Lead Me to Disillusionment
  9. An Unavoidable Road
  10. Scenery
  11. Going Shopping
  12. My Wife’s Magic
  13. Moral and Aesthetic Meditation Inside an Elevator
  14. Bread, Coat, Heart
  15. Illusion
  16. Delusion Bus
  17. Downfall
  18. When We Were Boys and Girls
  19. I Laugh, I Have To
  20. Peaceful Holiday
  21. Two
  22. If It Were Not for Songs
  23. Acrobat of Clouds and Fogs
  24. You
  25. A Rumor I Cannot Deal With
  26. The Myth of the Child
  27. Dust or Ruins
  28. A Hungry Father
  29. My Dancing Queen
  30. A Poem in -ing
  31. A Thousand-Year-Old Metaphysician
  32. Hands Becoming Normal
  33. On Religion
  34. The Last Dessert
  35. Once He Envied the Life of a Golden Telegraph Pole
  36. Night Deepening in Pastoral Mode
  37. Outside of That
  38. Blow, Wind!
  39. The Relationship between Nature and Me Since the 18th Century
  40. Youth
  41. In my Thirties
  42. Song of a Golden Sleeve
  43. Every Time I Pass This Place
  44. Happy Birthday
  45. The World Is Delicious
  46. Growth Record
  47. Madman’s Road
  48. One Day We Went to the Bank
  49. Then, That Day, Walks
  50. Inheritance
  51. Father, When I Recall Our Old Home
  52. Escape Route
  53. Home Withdrawing
  54. Losing a Hometown
  55. A Letter
  56. Probable, Very Probable
  57. The Last Game of Tennis with Her
  58. Floating Words
  59. Treading on Footprints, I Head for the Future
  60. About the Author
  61. About the Translators