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Contemporary Korean Poetry

Editor: Jaihiun Kim
Author: Various
Translated by: Kim Jaihiun
Publisher: Mosaic, 1994
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I have prepared this anthology with the aim of providing the reader with a bird’s-eye view of modern Korean poetry, with its best sampling, from the 1920s to the 1980s, best in the sense that it represents the varied aspects of Korean poetry

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