Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Translated by Eunhwa Choe, Rachel S. Rhee, and Kyung-Nyun Kim Richards. ＂These poems come wrapped in nature--trees, stars, moon, sea, rain, bees, clouds. Yoon-Ho Cho’s images are crisp, his poems concise--not a word is wasted. Some slight aspect of the natural world ignites the poet’s imagination, and the insights produced hurl the reader into an unexpected delight like ’the moon smiles, ’ or ’Light is not light if it fails to illuminate.’ Sparks have been evoked from dust, light has been roused from the shadows of falling leaves. These poems are startling, comforting, disturbing. Like life, sometimes the road is soothing and peaceful, and sometimes it is disturbing and filled with apprehension. Yoon-Ho Cho reveals his mastery of subtle emotions with evocative language that resonates like a tingling through the flesh.＂--Bill Wolak