"Jeong Ho-seung speaks with a voice of humility, humor, and whimsy. Seeking You showcases a poet very much of this world, at its most grungy and most holy at the same moment. His poems are reader-friendly and familiar, but they also reveal a thriving imagination and a heart steeped in compassion for all living creatures."

-Zack Rogow, poet, playwright, and literary translator

"In Jeong Ho-seung's deceptively simple poems, which have earned him a large readership in South Korea, change is a constant in a world of love and suffering. Thus, an electricity pylong in the shape of a pagoda 'turns into a bird and spreads silent wings.' And from such silences the poet coaxes innumerable forms of music, which Brother Anthony has translated with his customary brilliance. Jeong Ho-seung, who claims to speak with his ear and listen with his mouth, insists that he will 'keep talking in birdsong/ and hear everyone's words/ as birdsong.'"

-Christopher Merrill, poet, author of Self-Portrait with Dogwood