Yi Sang: A Timeline (by Jack Jung) Poem No. 1 Poems No. 4 & 5 Poems translated from the Korean by Jack Jung I Bird’s Eye View Poem 1 Poem 2 Poem 3 Poem 4 Poem 5 Poem 6 Poem 7 Poem 8 Poem 9 Poem 10 Poem 11 Poem 12 Poem 13 Poem 14 Flowering Tree This Kind of Poetry 1933, 6, 1 Mirror Common Anniversary Poem 15 II * Titled * For * So * Yŏng * Decorum Paper Tombstone Paper Tombstone—The Missing Wife— Fortunetelling Brazier Mornings Family Fortunetelling Path III Street Outside Street Clear Mirror Critical Conditions ○Ban ○Pursuit ○Drowning ○Cliff ○White Painting ○Lineage ○Location ○Prostitution ○Lifetime ○Innards ○Blood Relation ○Self-Portrait I WED A TOY BRIDE IV Paradise Lost Girl Paragraphs on Blood Relations Paradise Lost Face Mirror Moon Wound Yi Sang’s cover design ofChosun and Architecture magazine Reproductions of poems in Japanese: “Architecture Infinite Hexagon: Diagnosis 0:1” and “Architecture Infinite Hexagon: 22 years” Poems translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu Introduction to the Japanese Poems of Yi Sang (by Sawako Nakayasu) from Abnormal Reversible Reaction ○Abnormal Reversible Reaction ○Fragment Scenery ○ ▽’s Games ○ Beard ○Hunger from Bird’s Eye View ○Two People—1— ○Two People—2— ○LE URINE ○Movement from Solid Angle Blueprint ○Memorandum on the Line 1 ○Memorandum on the Line 2 ○Memorandum on the Line 3 ○Memorandum on the Line 4 ○Memorandum on the Line 5 ○Memorandum on the Line 6 ○Memorandum on the Line 7 from Architecture Infinite Six-Sided Figure ○AU MAGASIN DE NOUVEAUTES ○Diagnosis 0:1 Yi Sang with writer Pak T’ae-wŏn and poet Kim So-un Essays translated from the Korean by Jack Jung A Journey into the Mountain Village Ennui After Sickbed Sad Story A Letter to My Sister Tokyo notes Stories translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi and Joyelle McSweeney Yi Sang’s House (by Don Mee Choi) Page from “Spider&SpiderMeetPigs” with original spacing in Korean and English Spider&SpiderMeetPigs notes True Story—Lost Flower notes Afterword: Thirteen for Yi Sang, for Arachne (by Joyelle McSweeney) Yi Sang Collage (by Don Mee Choi) Acknowledgments

from Spider&SpiderMeetPigHis (spider) eyes looked wasted and he entered, tipsy, from drinking. His glassy eyes observed Mayumi the lump of meat as if in envy. Wife—Mayumi—wife—my wife who keeps getting skinny—my skewer-thin wife—stop getting so thin—take a look at Mayumi—her ample bust and chubby face, puff, puff, puff—life’s not fair—one puffs up like a corn cracker and the other shrinks, barely visible—let’s see—he could see her body bloating up like a toasted rice cake. But his eyeballs only wiggled up and down like the goldfish inside a fish tank. He could only faintly see Mayumi’s pudgy face moving slowly like seaweed. O giggled, screamed, clapped, and giggled again inside the stink of her makeup.