No information available. Book is available from Seoul Selection and LTI Korea. Read Brother Anthony’s essay on Kim Kwang-kyu’s poetic vistion here. [Read More]
Archives: Books (page 106)
Flowers of a Moment
“Bodhisattva of Korean poetry, exuberant, demotic, abundant, obsessed with poetic creation . . . Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian.”—Allen Ginsberg “Korea’s greatest living Zen poet.”—Lawrence Ferlinghetti Flowers of a Moment is a treasure trove of more than 180 brief poems by a major world poet … [Read More]
The Memoirs of Hun Pong: The Pendulous Life of a Korean Man Who Served Both Sides of a Divided Nation During the Korean War
This is a true story of a Japanese-born Korean man who struggled for survival during the Korean War. It is also an inspiring book about human yearning for survival in the most miserable circumstances. Born in Japan, Hun Pong returned to his fatherland Korea after it became independent from Japan and worked for the Korean … [Read More]
The Dream of Things: Selected Poems of Hyonjong Chong
From the publisher’s website: The Dream of Things brings together about 80 poems by Hyonjong Chong that best illustrate his unusual poetic imagination and polished skill. In these poems, Chong demonstrates his persistent pursuit of the relationship between poet and object. It is through thoughtful meditation about language and meticulous precision in word choice that … [Read More]
Sunrise over the East Sea
From the publisher’s website: This selection of Park Hi-jin’s poems includes about ninety of his poems of diverse lengths from among some two thousand poems he has published so far. Though they may not represent a fair cross section of his poetic works in content and expression, they do convey some of his more important … [Read More]
Somewhere Far Away: Poems of Moon Hee Kim
From the publisher’s website: Poems in this volume reflect the poet’s life in a myriad of ways like the light cast through a prism. The fifty-three poems collected in the book fall into two groups: those that reveal what the poet feels and thinks while living her daily life, and those that deal with what … [Read More]
Drawing Lines: Selected Poems of Moon Dok-su
From the publisher’s website: This selection of Moon Dok-su’s poems includes some eighty of his poems chosen from among a dozen different books and magazines. These poems cover a variety of subjects and show Moon’s perception of the world as well as his modernistic approach to poetic inspiration. He paints landscapes unseen in traditional Korean … [Read More]
I Want to Hijack an Airplane
From the publisher’s website: The 103 poems in this volume by Kim Seung-hee cover a number of themes: sacredness of the life force, conditions of women, mother-daughter relationship, and husband-wife relationship. “Female Buddha” paints a vivid picture of a woman’s agony in the delivery room and the triumphant birth of a new life. In “The … [Read More]
Flowers in the Toilet Bowl
From the publisher’s website: This volume brings together 65 poems from Choi Seungho’s ten books that best illustrate his thought and art. In many of his poems, Choi portrays the rampant desires of the “hypnotized” man and the gray landscape of the late consumer society. Choi tries to expose the illusory nature of man’s desire … [Read More]
What the Spider Said
From the publisher’s website: This is a collection of short “epigrammatic” poems by Chang Soo Ko originally written in Korean. The narrator of the poems is conceived to be a “spider,” which to the poet’s mind represents a mystic observer with “spiderly” sense of humor. The poems were written with substantial attention to poetic vision … [Read More]
Our Encounter: Selected Poems of Kyu-Hwa Kim
From the publisher’s website: Our Encounter contains fifty poems by Kyu-Hwa Kim that express real life situations in her own unique imagery: passing by, distance, love, loneliness, and anxiety, among others. The poems have some specific characteristics: well-structured, thoughtful and intellectual inspiration; common words that convey imaginary esthetic feeling with maturity; and good sense that … [Read More]
Korean Drama Under Japanese Occupation
From the publisher’s website: From 1910 to 1945, Japan occupied Korea and controlled every aspect of the Korean life. This book selects three plays by two prominent Korean writers, Ch’i-jin Yu and Man-sik Ch’ae, who ventured to voice anti-Japanese sentiments in their plays despite the harsh censorship. In The Ox, two brothers suddenly find their … [Read More]
In a Seed: Poems of Hyang-Ah Lee
From the publisher’s website: In a Seed contains 60 poems by the author, which best represent the poet’s creative life over a period of fifty years. The poems of Hyang-Ah Lee are very touching, for they have inner strength to bravely cope with agonies without disregarding the realities of life teetering all the time on … [Read More]
Fragrance of Poetry: Korean-American Literature
From the publisher’s website: Fragrance of Poetry contains seventy-five poems by fifteen Korean-American poets. These poets are all first-generation immigrants from Korea whose primary language is Korean. Naturally, the poems in this book show the Korean immigrants’ solitude, nostalgia, pathos, anger, laughter, and love. They are cross-cultural communications from Korea to America, with the themes … [Read More]
Cracking the Shell: Three Korean Ecopoets
From the publisher’s website: This poetry anthology contains ninety poems by three prominent Korean ecopoets who write about the endangered environment and deplore its impact on nature and mankind. Seungho Choi’s poetry is filled with explicit descriptions and pessimism that condemn the capitalist society and man’s selfish desires, which, he believes, can ultimately ruin the … [Read More]
Blue Stallion: Poems of Yu Chi-whan
From the publisher’s website: This is the first anthology of the poetry of Yu Chi-whan, the foremost poet of twentieth-century Korea, in English translation. Translated by an admirer of Yu Chi-whan as man and poet, the poems selected for inclusion in this volume provide an overview of his poetic world. Appearing in the chronological order … [Read More]