Infant Splendor | London Korean Links

Author: Ku Sang
Translated by: Brother Anthony of Taizé
Publisher: Samseong Publishing, 1990
Original title: 유치찬란
Link to online store *

Poems by Ku Sang (1919 – 2004)
Translated by Brother Anthony
Paintings by Jung Kwang (1935 – 2002)

This one is pretty difficult to get hold of, and it is not listed in WorldCat. Abe Books seems to have a copy, but otherwise this title doesn’t show up much in internet search results. If it weren’t listed on Brother Anthony’s website or in the LTI Korea database you wouldn’t know it existed.

Brother Anthony explains that “the book was only printed in 1000 copies, and will never be republished. The combination of paintings and poems deserves to be better known.” Accordingly, he has provided the full text online:

* Where the book is available from a number of sources, they are prioritised as follows: (1) Amazon UK site, or Bookshop.org for the more recent uploads (2) Amazon US site (3) Other sites in US or Europe, including second-hand outlets (4) LTI Korea, where the title is advertised as available from there (5) Onlines stores in Korea. Links to Bookshop.org and Amazon UK site contain an affiliate code which, should you make a purchase, gives a small commission to LKL at no additional cost to you.