Bill Wolak

Counting the Stars at Night

Arts & Literature

“Yoon Dong-ju’s poetry is a long meditation on mortality. The poet constantly foregrounds what is most transient, most fleeting, and what is most poignant, stirring the memory and reminding us that the book must close, the song must end, and that life is a series of last goodbyes. Such poems remind us to live more intensely in the present and to cherish especially the gifts of health, friendship, and love while we still have the capacity to appreciate them.”