The colors of dawn : twentieth-century Korean poetry / Frank Stewart, series editor ; Brother Anthony of Taize, Chung Eun-Gwi, guest editors ; illustrations by Hye Woo Shin.
(1946-1994). -- Kim Nam-ju Part one. Poetry of today: Massacre / Measuring the height of a shadow ; Today's meeting ; This city's this and that ; It was good that no one lived there ; Afternoon with magnolia ; Scene with a total eclipse of the moon and a canna ; DMZ, cloud family in wonderland ; History of the void ; Brief sunshine after snowfall / Kim Sun-Woo (1970- ) -- Extinction ; I am ; Day after day we ; When you were a boy / Jim Eun-young (1970- ) -- Fifteen seconds without sorrow ; An unavoidable road ; Things that lead me to disillusionment / Shim Bo-Seon (1970- ) -- Jeonju stream ; A spring day ; Rain is falling ; Spring's depth / Hwang Gyu-gwan (1969- ) -- Weekday cinema ; Toughing a stone by the riverside ; Touch of music for the deaf ; Barefoot ; Kafka's sleep / Park Seo Young (1968- ) -- Oh, Bartleby ; Shadow ; The pit ; Opposites ; A blanket's insomnia ; The river and I / Kim So Yeon (1967- ) -- Magpies waiting for redevelopment ; Lyrics, too, have class structures ; Winter that year at Dotgot ; Beyond the border ; Love song for Garibong five-way crossing ; Being shadowed / Song Kyung-dong (1967- ) -- Daeheung Chemicals plastic factory / Kim Ju-Tae (1966- ) -- Room with a view of Seopseom ; I wasn't yet born ; A deer ; Sacrament on the road ; Between "no sighting" and "sighting" ; Banksias ; Where the cornfield used to be / Ra Heeduk (1966- ) -- Love's invention ; Love's slave ; Faces / Lee Yeong-gwang (1965- ) -- Mokpo ; Mr. Jeon of the Chinese restaurant ; A snail ; Bak Yeong-geun ; The last day of the lunar year ; No shadows / Kim Sa-in (1956- ) -- Shall time's best jewel from time's chest lie hid? ; Mending ; I am not a noodle delivery boy ; I did not need a bag / Choi Jeongrye (1955- ) -- I know what I must resist but... ; The way to Unmun ; Empty-bodied guest / Baek Mu-san (1955- ) -- The old church ; Autumn rain ; Autumn leaves ; Winter trees / Do Jong-Hwan (1954- ) -- The place of fallen flowers ; My Dionysis ; My momentary toy ; My first light ; A letter sent to Nae-Rin Stream ; Twilight / Ko Hyeong-ryeol (1954- ) -- Someone said ; Winter forest ; The sea ; Silence / Kim Soo-Bok (1953- ) -- Hopes purgatory ; One white flatfish lying on a white dish ; Translucent opacity ; Dream of someone free ; Plum blossom is mighty ; Sisyphus's stake ; An island called "In Spite of All" ; Inside of hope is God's drop of water ; Seoul melancholy 1 ; Seoul melancholy 2 / Kim Seung-hee (1952- ) -- Something beautiful ; If not for the body, it wouldn't have existed ; To be alive right now / Lee Seong-Bok (1982- ) -- A bird ; Insu Peak ; Sehando : winter landscape ; The well ; Rice soup ; A shooting star ; Longing for Buseok-sa Temple ; I love you ; Ants ; How to eat / Jeong Ho-seung (1950- ) -- A blessing ; At sunset ; The small house on the prairie ; Some kind of diligence ; One evening ; Morning ; Evening scene ; At Qinghai ; On the Qingzang Plateau ; Guts / Lee Si-young (1949- ) -- Massacre / Kim Nam-ju (1946-1994). -- (1901-1936). -- About the translators -- About the artist -- Acknowledgments and permissions -- Transliteration of Korean names. When that day comes / The wind is blowing ; The moment I meet you ; One touch and I'll burst into flame / Shim Hun (1943- ) -- Trickery ; Roadside trees in April ; Kim with crutch ; A kind of confession / Kim Kwang-Kyu (1941- ) -- Five bandits / Kim Jim-ha (1941- ) -- Reed's blood ; The hill inside the hill ; Splendor of water 4 / Mah Chonggi (1939- ) -- In the dark ; Friend! In your fist... ; Someone ; Mountain station ; Year-end fair ; An alley ; Travelling companions ; A chance encounter ; We meet again / Shin Kyeong-nim (1937- ) Ten poems from Untitled poems / Ko Un (1933- ). -- Part three. Founding voices: On top of a mountain ; The fruit's tree ; At summer's end / Bak Seong-ryong (1934- ) -- Rivers ; After Tu Fu ; Happiness / Cheon Sang-byeong (1930-1993) -- Rivers ; If you come to a sunny place / Jeon Bonggeon (1928-1988) -- The black river / Park In-Hwan (1926-1956) -- Mediterranean observations ; Lonely height ; Suez Canal / Kim Jong-Gil (1926- ) -- Prologue for a flower ; Ballad tune VII ; The snow falling on Chagall's village ; Poem on an autumn evening ; Flower / Kim Chunsu (1922-2004) -- Barley flute ; Jeolla-do Road to Sorok Island / Han Ha-Un (1920-1975) -- Substance and reality ; Wings ; Playing by himself ; New year ; Lord! Once again / Ku Sang (1919-2004) -- Confession ; A poem easily written ; Self-portrait / Yun Tong-ju (1917-1945) -- In praise of the graveyard ; Sun ; In epistolary style / Pak Tu-Jiin (1916-1998) -- The hippopotamus ; The ostrich ; The moon / Bak Mog-Weol (1916-1978) -- Barley-time summer ; Self-portrait ; Noontide ; The legend of the tiled-roof house ; A kiss ; Pretty girl / So Chong-ju (1915-2001) -- Jeolla Lass / Yi Young-ak (1914-1971) -- World's morning / Kim Ki-rim (1908-?) -- Evening glow ; On the frontline ; This spoke the Himalayas ; Bat / Yoo Chi-hwan (1908-1967) -- Night at the frontier (Part 1) / Kim Tong-Hwan (1901-1958) -- When that day comes / Shim Hun (1901-1936). -- About the translators -- About the artist -- Acknowledgments and permissions -- Transliteration of Korean names.
Summary:
"Throughout the twentieth century, few countries in Asia suffered more from foreign occupation, civil war, and international military conflict than Korea. The Colors of Dawn brings together the moving and powerful voices of over forty Korean poets from these turbulent years. From 1903 to 1945, the Japanese Empire occupied the Korean peninsula and instituted measures to annihilate the nation and its culture. After Japan's defeat in WWII, Korea became a killing ground during the Korean War (1950 to 1953). During this period and into the 1980s, South Korea was controlled by a military dictatorship, and today it remains on war footing. In the midst of internal and external conflicts, Korea's poetśthreatened by the authorities with torture, imprisonment, and death́found ways to express their fierce desire for freedom and self-governance. The result is a century of outstanding poetry, from Sim Hun (1901) to more familiar modern and contemporary poets, such as Kim Chi-ha and Ko Un."--Amazon.
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