"Cold Candies is a dense collection of prose poems, and its imagery and thematic concerns navigate dark terrain. Accidents await and ghosts wander. Things burn and melt, or flood and rot. It is easy to feel as if you've stepped into a Dalí painting, with impossible, melting landscapes. Or a Picasso, with mutable faces and bodies. While Lee Young-Ju's Cold Candies gathers the broken and unsettled, the collection somehow manages to avoid all despondency, through its intense mental questing and through its insistence, seen in the final sentence of the collection, that we come 'walking out of our thoughts to be loved.'" -Lisa Higgs, Colorado Review
