불화하는 말들
- Page
- 144
- Publication Date
- September 9, 2015
- ISBN
- 9788932027715
The cream of Lee Seongbok’s thinking, brimming with inquiries and insights into life, art, humanity, and literature.
Words at Odds is the corpus of poetics and literary theories of Lee Seongbok, the poet who has seduced us over the past 40 years with his insightful gaze on humanity before the wild nature of life, expressed in his robust words reinforced by his long, in-depth study and contemplation of the genre. One of the three books in the collection, Words at Odds compiles his lectures on poetry from 2006 to 2007 recreated as poems. “You are only left with shallow ideas if you accept things at face value. Art comes from conflicts. Conflicts are what being young makes special—being at odds with oneself and the world, but only with poetry can one reconcile. That’s what strips us naked and grants us formidable beauty at the same time,” remarks the poet in one of the 128 lectures, including the foreword. Some of the recounted anecdotes, in which students respond to the poet’s prompt, could be used as an effective learning tool for aspiring writers or read as a piece of poetry on its own merits.