ampampquotPoetry is a world of the imagination that begins with the loneliness and pain of a firstperson persona but does not neglect social pain but rather accompanies it. Thanks to the poem the firstperson can go beyond the first person and ampampquotIampampquot can become ampampquotwe.ampampquot The eggs pots brooms washing lines flounders croakers and cutting boards that I evoke in my poems are metaphors of fragile and endangered womens existence as well as being universal human metaphors. I desperately go rowing across a first person world in an attempt to reach a universal sea.ampampquot KIM SEUNGHEE Kim SeungHee is regarded in her native Korea as being radically different from any other Korean poet male or female in her choice of themes and poetic expression as this selection from two of her recent collections demonstrates.