From the publisher’s website: The Imjin nok, or Record of the Black Dragon Year, is the first popular tale inspired by the Japanese invasion of Korea between 1592 and 1598. As a collection of folk narratives clustered around major events and characters, it exists in some forty manuscript and printed versions, long and short, in … [Read More]
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Life and Poems of Three Koreans: Kim Chi-Ha, Ko Un, Yang Song-Oo
From the publisher’s website: Harold Hakwon Sunoo was born on Feb. 2, 1918 in Pyongyang. On August, 1938, he came to the United States to meet his grandfather, Tom Sunoo, who came to the USA in 1904. Harold married Helen Sonia Shinn on Feb. 6, 1943 in San Francisco. He has two sons and three … [Read More]
Black Crane: An Anthology of Korean Literature
Difficult to obtain other than in a couple of libraries in Denmark and Germany. [Read More]
Gold Crowned Jesus and Other Writings
No information available [Read More]
Love’s Silence and Other Poems
Yong-un Han (1879-1944) is recognised as Korea’s finest Buddhist poet of the twentieth century and also one of the country’s most influential political activists in the struggle against Japanese imperialism. Yong-un Han’s Buddhist insights and political passion combine to give his poetry great spiritual power. He describes the complexities of love as beginning in the … [Read More]
Infant Splendor
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 … [Read More]
Wind Burial
A collection of poetry from Korean poet Dong-gyu Hwang. “Hwang’s case is a unique phenomenon in Korean poetry. He survived the prevailing romantic gloom to achieve new depth and lucidity. His life-affirming voice has begun to ‘exercise’ power.” -Chong-ho Yu- [Read More]
Traveler Maps
From the University of Hawai’i Press website: Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Book of Poetry, Independent Book Publisher’s Association Many followers of Korean literature believe Ko Un—one of the country’s most revered and prolific writers—will be nominated for a Nobel Prize. Once a Buddhist monk, then a political dissident, and always a … [Read More]
Looking for the Cow: Modern Korean Poetry
This anthology of seventy-two poets covers the whole spectrum of Korean poetry in this century, with larger selections from the best-known poets, including Midang So Chung-Ju, Kim Sowol, and Kim Suyong. Many types of poetry, from the classical shijo to free-verse forms are represented. Many subjects are covered, from love and the love of nature, … [Read More]
Traditional Korean Theatre
From the publisher’s website: A translation of the contents of the manual used for the masked dance of Korea. Readers will delight in the wit and liveliness of these dramas that depict human errors as well as the redeeming virtues of social bonds. “…a pioneering collection of Korean mask-dance and puppet plays… a fine introduction … [Read More]
Mu-ga: The Ritual Songs of the Korean Mudangs
Introduced and Translated by Alan C. Heyman This work is mainly comprised of a translation into English of four complete large-scale Korean Shaman ritual songs transcribed from tape recordings, which, until the present time, have remained either entirely untranslated, or, if otherwise, are only quoted in the form of brief excerpts in a few short … [Read More]
Classical Korean Poetry
From the publisher’s website: Introduced and Translated by Jaihiun Kim The 600 verses presented in this anthology will provide the reader with comprehensive and varied aspects of the sijo, the traditional Korean lyric, since its emergence as a fixed literary form as early as the late 12th century down to the 19th century. [Read More]
Modern Korean Poetry
From the publisher’s website: Introduced and Translated by Jaihiun Kim A companion volume to the Classical Korean Poetry, this anthology provides the reader a bird’s eye view of modern, 20th century Korean poetry, thus completing the sampling of the Korean poetry beginning with the 12th century through the present. [Read More]
Contemporary Korean Poetry
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 [Read More]
The contemporary Korean poets: Korean poetry since 1920
According to Amazon (who do not stock it) the volume “Presents overall view of modern Korean poetry from 1920s to late 1960s by 64 representative poets.” According to Worldcat, a handful of British libraries hold it. [Read More]
The Moonlit Pond: Korean Classical Poems in Chinese
From the publisher’s website: Unlike poetry written in the vernacular, classical Korean poetry was heavily influenced by the great poets of the Tang and Sung dynasties and was written in Chinese, while reflecting a perspective which was uniquely Korean. This is the first and only comprehensive anthology of classical Korean poetry to appear in English. … [Read More]