우리는 목숨을 걸고 쓴다지만
우리에게
아무도 총을 겨누지 않는다
그것이 비극이다
세상을 허리 위 분홍 훌라후프처럼 돌리면서
밥 먹고
술 마시고
내내 기다리다
결국
서로 쏘았다
Jin Eun-young was born in Daejeon, South Korea, in 1970. She graduated from Ewha Womans University with a degree in Philosophy, and later received her PhD (writing a thesis comparing Nietzsche and Nagarjuna). Jin Eun-young made her literary debut in 2000, publishing poems in the spring issue of
Literature and Society. She has since published a number of poetry collections, including
일곱 개의 단어로 된 사전 [A Dictionary of Seven Words], 우리는 매일매일 [We, Day By Day],훔쳐가는 노래 [A Stealing Song] and
시시하다 [Sisihada], and has received the Kim Daljin Literature Award for Young Poets, the Daesan Literature Award, the Modern Literature Award, and the Cheon Sang-byeong Poetry Award. She has written numerous academic books:
Nietzsche, Eternal Return and the Philosophy of Difference; Critique of Pure Reason: Taking Reason to Court; and
The Atopos of Literature, among others. In addition, the poetry anthology
Red Snowflake was published in French by Bruno Ducey Publishing (2016), and the English translation of
We, Day By Day was published by White Pine Press (2018). Jin Eun-young is currently a professor of literary counselling at Korea Counselling Graduate University.