이길원 충북 청주 출생으로 연세대학교를 졸업하고 [시문학]으로 등단하였다. 시집으로 [어느 아침 나무가 되어], [계란 껍질에 앉아서], [은행 몇 알에 대한 명상], [하회탈 자화상], [해이리 시편] 등이 있으며 영역시집으로 [Poems of Lee Gil-Won] 등이 있다. ‘천상병 시상’ 등을 수상하였으며 월간 [주부생활] 편집부장과 계간 [펜문학] 주간을 역임하고, 현재 국제펜클럽 한국본부 부이사장, ‘문학의 집 서울’ 이사, 계간 [펜문학] 편집인, 계간 [문학과 창작] 편집고문으로 있다.
<차례> 1. Self-Portrait Self-Portrait │ 12 I to You │ 14 Fated Attachment │ 16 Self-Portrait of a Hahoe Mask │ 18 Confession for the Imo Year │ 20 Meditation on Gingko Nuts Left by my Father │ 22 Mother │ 24 Bunjae │ 26 Morning Toes │ 28 One Day │ 30 A Goldfish Lives There │ 32 How to Live │ 34 Sitting on an Eggshell │ 36 In That Place Where We Start │ 38 Farewell Each Day │ 40 The Sounds of August │ 42
2. Meditation on a Cloud I Want to Be a Bird │ 46 Like the Sunset over West Lake │ 48 Father’s Paulownia Tree │ 52 Traces of the Wind │ 54 Meditation on a Cloud │ 56 A Natural Life-Span │ 58 Confession │ 60 Full Stop Practice │ 62 Please Raise the Lamp │ 64 Lowering the Coffin │ 66 Mirror Self-Portrait │ 68 The First Morning of the Jeonghae Year │ 70 Goya’s Dog │ 72 Playing a Game of Baduk │ 74
3. Dog Dog │ 78 Dog 3―Baron Canine’s Registration │ 80 Dog 4―Protest │ 82 Dog 5―Her Love │ 84 Dog 7―Guarding the House │ 86 That’s Enough │ 88 The Eagle of Tauru │ 90 The Baekje Ghosts of Osaka │ 92 Electronic Bard │ 94 Spring Magnolia │ 96 Music │ 98 Rachmaninoff in the Afternoon │ 100 Daisy Fleabane │ 102 Spring Flowers │ 104 Marriage Gift │ 106 Waves, Rock Island │ 108 The White Pine on Mt. Yumyeong │ 110 A Pine Tree and a Dayfly │ 112 A White Heron │ 114 Word 2 │ 116 Word 3―Fart │ 118 Word 5―Secret │ 120 Insadong Alleyways │ 122 Autumn Tints │ 124 The Sound of the Althea │ 126 Happy People Don’t Write Poetry │ 128 The Sunset’s Residual Image │ 130 The Mountains of This Land │ 132 River Sunset │ 136 Spring’s Love Song │ 138 A Flower’s Shadow │ 140 The Eulalia’s Longing │ 142 Mother’s Moon │ 144
4. Why I Dance Moonlight │ 148 The Flower’s Tale │ 150 Winter, Birch Tree │ 152 Why I Dance │ 154 The Friend I Met on a Dream Path │ 156 Autumn Sunbeams Sweeping the Road │ 158 A Full Heart │ 160 My Poem, The First Stanza Is Wrong │ 162 Pine Tree on the Rock Island │ 164 Because of a Dead Butterfly │ 166 Bull in the Bullring │ 168 Nobody Knew │ 170 Mole │ 172 Survival Game │ 174 Tropical Fish in an Aquarium │ 176 Seoul Cicadas │ 178 Lowering the Coffin │ 180
The Yearning of the Plant Called Electronic Bard ―By Young-Ho Park │ 182 An Ordinary Middle-Class Citizen’s Perception of Reality and Wisdom of Life ―By Ko myung-su │ 193
Gil-Won Lee’s work is full of teachings. His teachings may be summarized as admonishing a mindset for us to live like worthy humans. From that perspective, his poetry upholds statement above description, public utility over and above personal lyricism. The public literary view that regards poetry not as the expression of personal emotions but as deeply connected to public morals stands in the long tradition of Eastern poetics. In other words, it represents an ethical standpoint that attaches greater importance to the utilitarian value of content than to formal technique. _By Young-Ho Park
His qualities as a social critic and a classical scholar are amply in evidence in his poetry, which often seems more bent on making pronouncements rather than producing poetic imagery. The desire to make pronouncements may presuppose a great deal to say about society. As the poet Je-chun Park notes, “Lee’s poems most probably derive from the spirit of a classical scholar footing a path of moderation who puts poetry and life on an equal footing.” _By myung-su Ko
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