Review "In Counting the Stars at Night, we English readers are presented with the paradox of the certainty of death, vitiating existence and making any efforts in life to be basically pointless. This is a dismal thought, and yet Dong-ju's poetry strives against this futility by exhibiting beauty and truth in every line, as if to deny the inevitability of death as the be-all and end-all." --Stanley H. Barkan, author of Fullness of Seed "Yoon Dong-ju's poetry is a long meditation on mortality. The poet constantly foregrounds what is most transient, most fleeting, and what is most poignant, stirring the memory and reminding us that the book must close, the song must end, and that life is a series of last goodbyes. Such poems remind us to live more intensely in the present and to cherish especially the gifts of health, friendship, and love while we still have the capacity to appreciate them." --Bill Wolak, author of The Lover's Body "Yoon Dong-Ju's poetry includes austerity, sadness, but also joyous thought, such as the image of a ripening apple. His poetry and meditative prose, fluently translated by Sung-Il Lee, a Korean scholar of medieval English poetry, is often haiku-like: 'When the air gets damp, cool winds blow from the pines.' His is poetry we need." --John M. Hill, The U.S. Naval Academy, emeritus