At Night, Listening to the Night of Destruction

Future Without a Future
Precariat
Evening News
Discarding Shoes
Edith Piaf
Landlord
At Night, Listening to Night of Destruction
Himalayan Haeguk (Sea Chrysanthemum)
White-Haired Madman
Cutting a Donarium Cherry
While I Am Thinking Of These Things
High-Sea Watch
Corpse
While Quietly Pushing Away Sadness
Heartbroken in Spring
Monsoon
When Sadness Gathers Between the Sound of Rain and the Sound of Breathing
The Year Zero, in Winter
Land’s End
The Work of Living
Poet’s Note
Poet’s Essay
Commentary
Praise for Kim Myoung Ki

I always feel like I’m collecting new instances of unhappiness. Managing just barely to hold onto a time of ordeals, when one feels discarded, collapsing, and dismantled, I hold out. This collection of poems is also a record of an unhappiness with unknown directions. It contains prayers of please and tragedies of at last. What else could I do?

.From “Poet’s Note”

Kim Myoung Ki’s poems show exceptional strengths within the contemporary Korean poetic landscape. First, they depict characteristically vivid and powerful scenes of specific moments in our lives. Whether it’s the process of laboring, traces of his own family history, or moments of observing neighbors, his poems originate from the depth of the Korean language, embracing veracity and sincerity.

.Yoo Sungho (Literary Critic)