mean that Lee Sumyeong's poetry is just speculative and ideological. In contrast, what she focuses are efforts on capturing minute feelings during a specific moment. Instead of conventionally describing that, she tries to restructure it with her own lucid and fantastical language. Lee Sumyeong's poetry can seem ambiguous, but by revealing a new aspect of an object that doesn't converge on an already established conceptual meaning, her poetry is evident of her critical mind that wants to offer readers fresh, raw feelings and imagination. Her poetry often features unusual expressions. For instance, she writes sentences where time and space are distorted such as ‘children streaming through the air the stairs are playing’ or ‘One day I was conforming to my stone throwing. I was amongst the stones that I was throwing.’ Through such expressions, Lee Sumyeong makes a very particular poetic universe. Thus, Lee Sumyeong's poetry is not read much by the public. However, her works have earned the acclaim of the literary critics from the 1990s, and even now she is having great influence on younger poets. Early on, her poetry had many works that used ‘ice’ as a symbolic image for everyday life. Meanwhile, from the 2010s she has used the image of ‘water’ more often, switching the positions of the poetic subject and the narrator. Such experimentation was a result of attempting to find a world potentially there that does not actually exist. Works Collections of poems Saeroun odoki georireul mewotda (새로운 오독이 거리를 메웠다 New Misreading Filled the Streets), Segyesa, 1995. Waegarineun waegari nolireul handa (왜가리는 왜가리 놀이를 한다, Herons Play Heron's Play), Segyesa, 1998. Bulgeun damjangui keobeu (붉은 담장의 커브 The Curve of the Red Wall), Minumsa, 2001 Goyangi bidioreul boneun goyangi (고양이 비디오를 보는 고양이 The Cat Watching the Cat Video), Moonji Publishing, 2004. Eonjaena neomu maneun bideul (언제나 너무 많은 비들 Always Too Much Rain), Moonji Publishing, 2011. Machi (마치 Just Like), Moonji Publishing, 2014 Mullyuchanggo (물류창고 Warehouse), Moonji Publishing, 2018 Prose works Kim Gu-yonggwa Hanguk Hyeondaesi (김구용과 한국 현대시 Kim Gu-yong and Modern Korean Poetry), Korean Studies Information, 2008. – monograph Hoengdan (횡단 The Crossing), Munye Joongang, 2011. – essays on poetics Gongseubui sidae (공습의 시대 The Age of Air Raids), Munhakdongne, 2016. – an idiosyncratic history of Korean poetry in 1990s Pyomyeonui sihak (표면의 시학 The Poetics of Surfaces), Nanda, 2018. – new essays on poetics Translations Duncan Heath, Introducing Romanticism,