A collection of meditations on poetry art and life taken from the creative writing lectures of one of South Koreas most prominent living poetsKick against words like you would kick back on a swing. Youve got to feel as if the soles of your feet are touching the sky.These 470 aphorisms collected by his students are evocative micropoems in their own right. Some express ideas at once familiar and breathtakingly new truths we could sense but not put into words. Others unfurl fresh vistas and offer worlds to explore in their exciting and inspiring poetics. Together they offer an invigorating and original answer to the questions How and why do we write at all What does it mean to create And how should we see the world