문학과 지성사

Insinuating others’ misfortunes, a word that is not a word, echo.
The portrait of a being that returns at last without ever reaching.

Feeling Helped is Baek Eunsun’s third and most representative poetry collection. In this book, Baek serves the role of cartographer to draft the layers of memories that have been built and destroyed ad infinitum. If her debut collection, A Possible World, was the record of “extinguished we” in desperate scribble amid unending despair, and if her second collection was a montage of forgotten scenes, Feeling Helped is the minutes of her everyday battles. Full of skepticism about poetry and herself, the poet neither compromises with nor escapes from the present. The poems in Feeling Helped extend the poet’s scope to reflect on the personal and social changes, completing a kind of sequential Bildungsroman with her previous collections.