Collage of Seoul is a book of poetry tracing the spiritual journey of a man who, unnamed at birth, looks to both Eastern and Western cultures to form an identity through a love story that culminates with the decisive act of naming his two daughters. Through a mix of narrative and lyric poetry, Collage of Seoul transports the reader into a simulated flight between dreamscape and reality, faith and doubt, and allegory and biography as we are invited to explore the dangerous field of investigating who we are and where we come from.
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Jae Newman. Collage of Seoul
Collage of Seoul
Loran
Apartment Near Airport
Unnamed
Mother Tree
Pushing Chi
Aureole
Postage
Collage of Seoul
Adrift
Hikikomori
Land of the Morning Calm
One Hundred Words for Snow
Permission
Negative
Doors Among Trees
Reincarnation
Two Thousand Lilacs
Passports
Word
River
First Slow Dance with My Daughter
Artifacts
Marriage
City of Light
Canticle
Hives
Sea Woman
Album
Breaking News
Windsock
Jade Pin
Story Told Over Plum Tea
Reflex
Visions
Heading Westward at 495 MPH
Wired Jaw
Thy Kingdom Come
Under a Hat at the Beach
Blue Periods
Song: Decade
Paper Birch
The Renter Mows His Lawn
Parable
Orange Slivers on the Nightstand
Amen
Touchdown
Notes
Acknowledgements
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The Poiema Poetry Series
Poems are windows into worlds; windows into beauty, goodness, and truth; windows into understandings that won’t twist themselves into tidy dogmatic statements; windows into experiences. We can do more than merely peer into such windows; with a little effort we can fling open the casements, and leap over the sills into the heart of these worlds. We are also led into familiar places of hurt, confusion, and disappointment, but we arrive in the poet’s company. Poetry is a partnership between poet and reader, seeking together to gain something of value—to get at something important.
