허만하(許萬夏)가 읽은 프랑시스 퐁주(I) = On the Way Huh, Man-ha Reads Francis Ponge(I)

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Since the publication of his first poetry book, Seaweed in 1969, Huh, Man-ha was silent for thirty years. When his second poetry book, Rain Dies Standing Vertically, was published in 1999, he was writing energetically poetry, prose and poetic theory. Among his writings about foreign philosophers and poets, his most favorite philosopher and poet are Martin Heidegger and Rainer Maria Rilke. Though Francis Ponge(1899~1988) is his second favorite poet, Huh pays tribute to his first poetry collection, Le Parti pris des Choses(The Voice of Things), translated some poems from the English version. Huh also introduces Ponge's poetics: Ponge is a materialist poet. He despises extremely the ideal poetic or metaphysical diction, criticizes poems that describes human feelings about things and does not pursue poems that show the poet's subjectivity. He lets the things tell themselves. Huh seems to understand very well Ponge's description-definition-literary art work which avoids both the drabness of a dictionary and the inadequacy of poetry. On the basis of his understanding, Huh also introduces Ponge's poems, such as “Rain,” “Mulberry,” and “Candle.” However, these two poets seem to belong to the different genealogies, since Huh does not give up the ideal or platonic poetry even though he tells he is under the influence of Ponge.