The poems in this collection are located between a lost world and today’s modernity, poised between celebration and lamentation, as icons of loss and yearning. The reader is carried into unfamiliar spaces of scenery and also of language, as the translators retain echoes of the Korean originals, intent on transmitting each poet’s vision of an unfamiliar other place to readers who are eager to be transported. - Brother Anthony, literary translator and professor emeritus of Sokang University

Contents A Word from the Poet 10 2H2+O2=2 H2O 12 The Autobiography of a Flower: The Cockscomb 16 A Sunset by the Sea 20 A Morning Glory 22 Everyone is a Prisoner: I am Still in an Apple Seed 24 The Ladder 27 I Long for People 28 Love is the Pain of Feverish Flowers 32 The Sound of Rain 36 Salvador Dali’s Watch 38 Time Walks Out the Gate with Its Hat Pulled Down 42 Wind Chimes 46 Wildflower 48 Middle Age 50 I Want to Run 56 Beneath the Flowers of the Wisteria Vine 58 Flute 60 Critical Acclaim 64 차례 시인의 말 11 2H2+O2=2 H2O 14 꽃의 자서전 - 맨드라미 18 일몰의 바다에서 21 나팔꽃 22 누구든 포로다 -나는 아직 사과씨 속에 있다 25 사다리 27 사람이 그립다 31 사랑은 꽃몸살 35 빗소리 36 살바도르 달리의 시계 41 모자를 눌러 쓴 시간이 대문 밖으로 걸어나간다 44 풍경 47 야생화 49 중년 54 달리고 싶다 57 등나무 꽃 넝쿨 아래서 59 피리 63 작품해설 68