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Book SynopsisKo Un, the preeminent Korean poet of the twentieth century, embraces Buddhism with the versatility of a master Taoist sage. This work draws from a poetic reservoir filled with memories and experiences ranging over seventy years of South Korea's tumultuous history from the Japanese occupation to the Korean war to democracy.
Trade Review"Ko Un's work springs from a passionate dedication to the task of making whole again the narratives of the disrupted lives of Korea's people. No one has done more for what is coming gradually but ever more clearly to be recognized as Korea's literature of the twenty-first century." - David McCann, Director of the Korea Institute at Harvard University "These poems have magic." - Willis Barnstone, author of Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho"
Table of ContentsContents Foreword Gary Snyder Introduction Clare You FROM Song of Tomorrow (1992) Today Song of That Day Front of a Tree The Woman of Kageo Island Arirang Grand Dame Choi Kumja Strange Land Cold Mountain First Memorial Night Song of Innocence Kangaroo A Boat My Resume The Cow Is Laughing You and I A Slice of Old Moon Sosan Granny Confucius, One Day FROM The Road Ahead (1993) Majung Village Ignorant Man Empty Field Memories My Spring After Stacking the Chopped Pines The Poem in Last Night's Dream In the Woods Mother's Dew Chirping of a Cricket A Cup of Green Tea Grandfather's Advice The Road Ahead FROM A Cenotaph (1997) My Poems Forgetting Going Over Ssari Hill By the Window Sumano Pagoda Fallacy The Poet Poems of the Peninsula Hometown Once there was a teacher more than eighty years old A Cenotaph Anapurna Lullaby The Voice of Baekdam Monastery Alone One Day About the Time Crepe Myrtles Bloomed Lion Self-Portrait Spring News Sadness The Winter Sky Breeze Salmon Back Home Passing through a Mountain Village The Croaking of Frogs At Buan Gomso After a Hangover But Empty Hands FROM Ten Thousand Lives (1986 -- ) Traveler January Full Moon Morning Rooster Women of Sunjeri The Street Kids Byong'ogi Mansooni, Comfort Woman Letters Aunt Uncle Jaemoon A Good Day Planting Rice Mountain Well Mitsukoshi Department Store Lark Kasame Salt Flats Sudong's Swallows Ch'ilyong'i Chungdu's Mother Ttaoggi Tavern Justice Three-Headed Eagle YH Kim Kyungsook FROM Ko Un's Son Poems: What? (1991) Echo Owl Baby Coming Down the Mountain Bushman Looking Back Drunkard Friend The Three Way Tavern Late Summer Tsetse Fly Moon Green Frog Held in Your Arms Cuckoo Way Winds Cheju's Reed Field Mosquito House Summer From A Cenotaph:Cheju Island FROM The Whisper (1998) Afterlife Suddenly Stars and Flowers Unlike Laozi You Confession Peace A Certain Song Meeting Myself Barley Field Mustard Flowers in April Early Spring Searching for the Cow Coda: The Thuja Fence Notes
