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Kim Sun-Woo - Genre : Poetry+Essays - Award :   Kim Seon-wu(1970~ ) began her literary career in 1996 when a number of her poems including “The Old Road in Daegwallyeong Pass” was published in the quarterly, . According to the poet Ra Hee-duk, Kim’s poetry is filled with “bashful yet intense sensuality reminiscent of moist flower petals,” and “her femininity emanates. . . abundance as that of embryonic fluid.” The women in her poetry are “embryos, mothers and midwives all at once.” The image of women as bountiful, life-giving and life-embracing entities dominates her first volume of poetry . Her second volume of poetry reveals the force of nature in its primeval state through the physicality of women’s body and uniquely feminine functions of reproduction. In “A Bald Mountain,” it is women’s sexuality and sexual desires that find their expression in nature: “cloud children” pucker their lips toward the “bright nipples of flowers,” and “the tongue of the wind” passes over the waist of the mountain and lifts up the eulalia seeds while “licking the deep valley.” The winter grass bends down to have sex in various positions and the mountain itself is “lying with its legs open towards the shadow.” Infused with rhetorical beauty and sensitivity, Kim’s poetry marks a new chapter in women’s writing in Korea. Major works: (Nae Hyeo-ga Ib Sog-e Gachyeo Itgil Geobuhandamyeon, 2000), (Dohwa Arae Jamdeulda, 2003)