On Literary Imagination***************************************
Written by Kim Hwayoung
1998/89-8281-107-9/672p, 153X224

A landmark in literary scholarship. This is the best book so far on Albert Camus and, incidentally, one of the best books on literary imagination in general. Kim, who has an international reputation as an expert on Camus, successfully delineates the French writers' imaginative universe by illuminating the entire body of his work. Kim's reading presents an exemplary phenomenological analysis of poetic images, symbols and parables, and bears a testimony to the autonomy and creativity of human imagination.

A Castle Made of Tidal Time
Written by Kim Hwayoung
2002/89-8281-505-8/400p, 158X224

This book covers the passion of one's youth to the current world of speculation in the form of artistic travel writing. Crossing from old European castles to vast green African fields author Kim Hwayoung unveils human time, earthly lives, and the secret between human beings and literature in a surprising way. This book will be a shining key to the success of the author's literary career.

A Chinese Restaurant at the Corner
Written by Heo Sookyung
2003/89-8281-628-3/256p, 154X210

An essay collection by Heo Sookyung, a poet who says "Every step I take leads to a poem." She describes the memories of her hometown, friends in Seoul, and random thoughts for her days in Germany with smooth-woven words, while she has been studying archeology in the ancient Near East for 10 years in Munster University in Germany. She talks about her friends in Seoul, foods in her mother country, and her yearning for her mother tongue, by referring to her daily life another part of the world, where nobody knows she is a Korean poet.

Everyone is a Lone-Standing Tree******************************
Written by Cho Jungrae
2002/89-8281-619-4/424p, 153X224

This is a work traces the history of the writer as a big river, beginning from Taebaek Mountains to traveling to Arirang and Han River. The author with 33 years' experience is frank. He has spent his life imprisoned to literature, and his story echoes his writing career and personal life. This essay collection contains his inner topography occupied with a deep spirit for literature, as well as insight that are "deep-rooted in real human lives."
The Poems and Poets I Met
Written by Lee Moonje
2003/89-8281-630-5/352p, 145X200

Lee Moonje, who is also a poet, wrote biographies and on the poems of 20 poets representative of the current times. His ventures range from Seoul, Daegu, Boeun, Cheongju and Chonju to Busan and even all the way to Frankfurt, in the process of looking for the 20 poets. They include Lee Sungbok, Hwang Jiwoo, Do Jonghwan, and Choe Seungho, to Chang Seoknam, Lee Yunhak, and Ham Minbok. He created a unique "paratext" in this book, through close observation of between the lines and speculations on life.
Flowers
Written by Yoon Hoomyung
2003/89-8281-633-X/296p, 152X210

The author, a writer who used to dream of being a botanist in his school days, expresses his long and sincere love for flowers in this book. About 100 kinds of flowers and trees blooming during each of the four seasons beckons, weeps, mauls, and screams in this book. Flowers meet the author to add the scents of memory, love, travel, landscapes, and life, while the author admires the beauty of flowers to use their scents to add zing to his own works.
The Can*
Written by Lee Sanghee
2000/89-8281-325-X/136p, 153X210, 2-color

There was a guy who used to go to work at an architecture firm. He was an unknown poet as well. Then he is reborn as a can. This is a story about a miracle of love delivered by a poet reborn as a can and by an orphan boy.