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A Book of Snow
Contest
Spring Sunlight on the Field
Twin Houses
Sounds
Eavesdropping
Bird Chirping
Spring Flood
Spring Wind’s Workshop
Lawn’s Word
Wind’s Word
A Contrabass
Spider on the Tree
Sunday Evening
A Road between the Rice Fields
Humility

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Birthing a Poem
The Wind’s Concerto
Lunch Menu
A Rock Chair
Poem and Cricket
An Acorn in Autumn
Looking into the Goose Pond
Autumn Rain
Autumn Leaves
Leaf
Eulogy for a Maple
Playing with Fire
Sunshine Robbers
November Symphony
Living a Day, the Sun
Cocoon

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Sky
When I Want to See You
Dreaming
Ritual
Photos of My Wife and Baby
Big Smile
My Poetic Son
A Prayer for Jihoon
A Robin in February
My Special Advisors
A Tree Outside the Window
Yearning for You
Ivy Love
Two-Four Time

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A Documentary on the World of a Pond
My Avatar
Cave
A Blind Date
Understanding Another Culture
A Brown Dog
Snail
A Bird
Icarus’ Father
Dong-Hae Public Bathhouse Devotees
My House
Sky Nest
A Blue Sky
A Letter
One-Eyed Night
Star Birds
A Wayfarer
From Asura
Transfusion
The Ganges
I Want to Be a Worm
A Poet’s Life

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Choi Jongyoll has written new poems of great humility and passion about his self-chosen role as receptive seer, illuminator and embracer of the natural worldl. He writes about things of this world, things which he celebrates as talismans and emblems of what the human spirit can strive to be, to emulate--and in this work, I think, he has achieved this deep purpose, and become a transmitter of his transcendent visionary experience.

by David Schloss,
Poet and professor of English Literature at Miami University.

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Jongyoll Choi's hypnotic debut book of poems in English is replete with reverence for Nature. The loneliness of the young expatriate poet finding solace and beauty in snowy foreign fields; his careful observation of American flora and fauna; his yearning for a faraway family found in a flock of birds wining skyward: all these things infuse Choi's stark, nostalgic book. If his poems cannot literally fly him home, they build his very own literary nest in the sky. Don't take my word for it. Read Sky Nest and see for yourself!

by James Reiss,
Poet and Professor of English Literature at Miami University.