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From a Tiny Room to a Funeral Home, and to the Heaven of Magma

One-Liner Quotes   From a Tiny Room to a Funeral Home,and to the Heaven of Magma A Poet’s Pick   2024.08.05   Kim Yu-Tae is a poet and reporter in the Art & Culture Department at Maeil Business Newspaper. He wrote the poetry collection, Nothing Happened Except for That One (Munhakdongne, 2021), and the prose collection about banned books, Bad Books (Geulhangari, 2024).   A Western scholar once wrote that language reveals what has been, and what has not been, and above all, what has “ceased” to exist. Here, the language can be the names of those who once existed, or sometimes the sentences left behind in the form of poetry. In this respect, I have long thought of the posthumous poetry collection as a “rusty mirror” in which the departed tried to find and gaze upon their own self-portrait ahead of time.The poetry of the dead, contemplated in life by those who are no longer with us, is like a letter from the afterlife to the pre...
  • VOL.73 / 2024.08
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Bad Books

New Books   Bad Books   2024.07.01                       Unsafe Books Make the World Safe - Bad Books   “Bad books” Books that feel as if they would taint you or your family’s values with topics like homicide and immorality or change your identity the moment you read them.Bad Books by writer Yu Tae Kim takes us on a journey to the times of “bad books,” those that became widely known after being “banned” in human history for being unsafe.From the most well-known forbidden books in Korea – Yi Mun-Yol’s Pilon’s Pig and Ma Gwang-Soo’s Destiny – to 28 forbidden foreign titles... Can you believe that some of those books are still banned?   All those who were afraid of “bad books” wanted our society to be “safe.” However, writers of banned books claim, “Unsafe books are what makes a society safe!”   “A book filled with goodwill, contemplating the intangible boundary of...
  • VOL.72 / 2024.07
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