홈앤서비스 SK BROADBAND

2001년 『사람의문학』으로 작품 활동을 시작해 바닥 중에서도 맨 밑바닥을 시의 출처로 삼아 온 손세실리아 시인의 신작 시집 『뒷모습 지워지고도 한참을』이 출간되었다. 폐가에 홀려 시작한 제주살이 십수 년, 조천 바닷가 늙은 집을 고쳐 책방을 꾸려 온 시인은, 이번 시집에서 제주의 땅과 말, 어머니의 기억, 낮고 여린 생명들이 서로 스미는 자리에서 슬픔의 안쪽을 오래 들여다보면서도 슬픔에 포박되지 않고, 삶의 비루와 상처마저 웃음과 환대로 건너간다. 시집 일부는 영문으로 번역되어 『Long After Your Back Had Faded Away』라는 제목으로 함께 선보인다. 이는 시인의 첫 번째 영문 시집이다.

Poet Son Cecilia, who began writing in 2001 through Literature of the People and once wrote that the ‘source’ of her poetry lay at the “very, very/bottom of the bottom” (“The Source of My Poetry”), has released a new collection, Long After Your Back Had Faded Away. Enchanted by an abandoned house, she came to Jeju more than a decade ago, and she runs ‘Poet’s House,’ a cafe and bookstore housed in a renovated old residence along the coast of Jocheon. Her poetry gazes deep into the heart of sorrow without becoming captive to it. In her work, the land and language of Jeju, memories of her mother, and small, fragile lives permeate one another, creating a sheltering shade, and within that shade we encounter the steadfast spirit of a poet who crosses even life’s squalor and wounds through laughter and hospitality. Translated by Eun-Gwi Chung, the collection is the poet’s first English-language collection.

Poet’s Note
Part One UNTIL THE LONGING IS NOT LONGED INK WASH TECHNIQUE
THE DAY CAMELLIAS BLOOMED MAINLANDER
EOKKAESARI
SHITTY SPRING NIGHT
POLSAE
A SACRED TREE
A GRAIN OF REVOLUTION

Part Two NOT EVERYTHING BAD IS ENTIRELY BAD LOVE LETTER
THE FLOWERING SEASON OF MY LIFE
ONCE MORE, THAT DAY
DONG-JU’S FLOWERPOT
AT GANWOL-AM
A DAY OF MERCY
A FLOWER ALL MY OWN

Part Three THERE ARE NO EASY GOODBYES A BOOK’S FATE
THE WORD, NUNA
KARROT MARKET
PASSIONATE SOLIDARITY

EPITAPH
A SHARP AWAKENING MASTER THIEF

Part Four ONE NARRATIVE, ANOTHER WHAT A POETRY BOOK IS FOR SOMEONE SPECIAL
THE POET’S HOUSE
JUST, QUIETLY
GOD’S ABODE
BOOKSHOP JOURNAL
APRIL’S VERSE
PROTHALAMION
Postscript “A Dense, Deep-Green Poem of a Life” (Ko Young-jik)