Poet Cecilia Son, who began her literary career in 2001 with People’s Literature and has long drawn inspiration from “the very bottom of the bottom,” has published her new poetry collection, Even After the Back View Fades Away. Having been captivated by an abandoned house and settled in Jeju for over a dozen years, the poet—who renovated an old house by the seaside in Jocheon to open a bookstore—gives us a collection in which she gazes deeply into the innermost depths of sorrow amidst the interplay of Jeju’s land and language, memories of her mother, and the humble, fragile lives that permeate and spread throughout the island, yet ultimately transcends it all with laughter and hospitality. Part of the collection is
