Picking Up a Ray of Light at the End of Despair. This is a book written by a poet who has been a prolific writer for over 30 years. In this book, he writes not as a poet, but as a spokesperson for poetry, about poems and poets, as well as about writing poems, excessive number of poems, bias against poems, and how to live with poems as a part of life. The author addresses what it means to be “useless” in a world that cares about things that are useful only and asks where the poems that embrace the “uselessness” should stand. And the author tells his idea about poetry, while expressing his appreciation for poetry that has been his means and driving force of life.