Mother's Dawn
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The poet, Soonja Kwon, was born in Gyeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-Do, South Korea in 1958. She was educated at Geunhwa Girls’ High School. She graduated from Kyungpook National University and Kookmin University Graduate School of Education with a major in English. Kwon's first book of poetry A Man Gone to Sea is published in 2000. She received IMAGE, POETRY & CRITICISM Award for new and emerging poets in 2003. Her second published book of poetry is titled Dream Another SeaᅳUmok Hoetjip (Umok Raw Fish Restaurant).
Mother's DawnᅳBlack swamp is Kwon's third book of poetry, whose overall poetic theme is love. Kwon sings about the love toward her mother and father without exaggerating or mystifying, as in "Mother’s Dawn," and "A Song for Father’s Dawn." Rather, she reveals the struggle to find the traces of love that are gradually fading away, and attempts to make an imprint of her findings. She tries to remember these traces of love as tactile memories. In this way, all of the poems in Mother’s Dawn are tattoos of love.
ᅳ Jeongsan Hwang, literary critic, professor, Daejeon University
The beautiful temperament of the poet comes through the best when she recomposes the life of people in her home town in a fishing village. Reading through the poems in this collection, one can feel the way she looks at objects with compassion. In this collection, readers can delight in finding brilliant phrases, such as “The white hands of my mother, who would hang pieces of hope on the clothesline,,(Magnolia), “Leaning on his only daughter, his crutch” (Camel in the Park), “Waits for his body to clear up and wake up again." (Gujeolcho: Siberian chrysanthemum) The true meaning of the existence of poetry perhaps lies in reading and writing such phrases.
—Kwang-gyu Kong, poet
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