05-23-2023, 05:30 AM
A Korean poet who spends her nights feeding feral cats in a "moon village" (slum cities that grew up around Seoul).
Very interesting article in the New York Times about her (sorry, but you probably have to be a subscriber to read this):
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/world...ticleShare
However, you can read some of her poems here for free:
https://jaypsong.blog/category/hwang-in-suk/
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A quote from the article (with some lines of a poem not at the free site)
In addition to cats and other subjects, Ms. Hwang’s poetry documents the milieu of convenience store clerks, street sweepers and other late-night workers. “I don’t even know his face as we meet only in the dark,” she writes of a newspaper deliveryman in a recent poem called “Don’t Know Where You Live”:
He wouldn’t know my face either but
How come he recognizes me so well
We live at night
Very interesting article in the New York Times about her (sorry, but you probably have to be a subscriber to read this):
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/world...ticleShare
However, you can read some of her poems here for free:
https://jaypsong.blog/category/hwang-in-suk/
________________________________________________
A quote from the article (with some lines of a poem not at the free site)
In addition to cats and other subjects, Ms. Hwang’s poetry documents the milieu of convenience store clerks, street sweepers and other late-night workers. “I don’t even know his face as we meet only in the dark,” she writes of a newspaper deliveryman in a recent poem called “Don’t Know Where You Live”:
He wouldn’t know my face either but
How come he recognizes me so well
We live at night