창작과 비평

The Quarterly Changbi 210, Fall 2025

Abstract

The special feature ‘Poetic Creation and World-Making’ was organized with the awareness that we must further refine our will and practice to create a world different from the one we have known, and with the aim of confirming this through the achievements of contemporary Korean poetry. Song Jong-won focuses on the idea that poetic creativity is above all a matter of altering the gaze with which we look at the world and history and survey contemporary poetry back to Yongdam Yusa. He discusses how the civic capacity to bring about the “ripening of the time” and poetry’s capacity to “set time on fire” and to declare the “moment” have continually illuminated one another. Sin Yong-mok gently reminds us, who so often forget that we ourselves are beings of “place,” that poetry allows us to sense place as the body of the mind and of history, doing so in particular through poems that engage in the region long called “TK.” Choi Sunkyo’s essay boldly takes up the question of “spirituality,” which has been widely neglected and is often suspected of having degenerated into escapism or commercialism, and reads young poets whose works capture the liberatory character of spirituality in the pursuit of truth and an imagining of the future.