You Arrived in the Season of Perennial Summer

Plain Notebook
The Taste of Glaciers
The Daily Life of a Caf? Owner
A Closed Butchery
Dormitory
Dyer
History
Singer-Songwriter
Insomnia
You Come Walking Out of My Dream
Transience and Eternity
Roadside Tree
House of Tears
Work Team Leader
The Neighborhood of Daebang
Puberty
Summer Vacation
Metropolis
Shrubland
House of Tears

Poet’s Note
Poet’s Essay
Commentary
What They Say About Lee Young-ju

Times like this are no good. They’re too distant from the root cause. I think I was a
weaver in a factory a hundred years ago. Maybe a handweaver for hire a thousand
years ago. I’m now weaving things that aren’t easily woven. Language? What
language? I fail each time. When I fail, I can feel a faint presence of the roots . . . .
From “Poet’s Note”

Lee Young-ju writes as a citizen and a poet, about what has happened and the pain that is ongoing; this peculiar blend of subjects and perspectives have become her means of finding certainty. She isn’t satisfied with recording the event and despair as-is; she excavates the brutality that lies within the “as-is,” while recognizing that no words can adequately describe what she sees.
From “Commentary”