Tiger Swallowtail

My Loneliest High Place
Rain. Is. Shattered.
Let’s Set the Forests Free
Spring
Let’s Write Poems
Swallows
Standing at the Horizon
A Typhoon’s Lesson
A Time of a Precipice
Spring Snow
Shadows
Daytime Moon
Cremation
There Is Nothing But Flowers
The Road Not Taken
The True Identity of Waves
Again
Tiger Swallowtail
Toward the Direction of Daybreak
Resurrection
A Pickaxe and a Donkey
Half Moon
Snowstorm
Winter Valley

Poet’s Note
The Poet’s Essay
Commentary
What They Say About Hwang gyu-gwan

Creating poems as an act of creating a new truth is more like a dynamic action of a body. Further, this action enables a movement in which poems become “something” in reality on their own. That is, a poet’s role is to enable a poem to arise on its own and carry out movements, and thus a poet is a medium to reveal poems in language by being possessed by them. Yet poems are not something a transcendental being bestows upon us from above, but are like the lightning created during the clash of concrete real lives. In order to gladly enjoy an electric shock from that lightning, what physical abilities should a poet possess?
From Poet’s Note

To poet Hwang Gyu-gwan, a soul is very important. To him, a soul is related to what is upright and just. It makes him remain standing and be alive. Then what does the soul look like to him? Criticizing the structure of technological capitalism, which degenerates the ability of our bodies, he argues that we should take care of “minds and souls.” According to him, advanced civilization prevents our souls from being free.
Moon Jong-pil(Literary Critic)