The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry

  • Author: McCann, David
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • ISBN: 9780231111287
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780231505949
  • Place of publication:  New York , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2004
  • Month: March
  • Language: English
Korea's modern poetry is filled with many different voices and styles, subjects and views, moves and countermoves, yet it still remains relatively unknown outside of Korea itself. This is in part because the Korean language, a rich medium for poetry, has been ranked among the most difficult for English speakers to learn. The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry is the only up-to-date representative gathering of Korean poetry from the twentieth century in English, far more generous in its selection and material than previous anthologies. It presents 228 poems by 34 modern Korean poets, including renowned poets such as So Chongju and Kim Chiha.
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • EDITOR’S NOTE
  • TRANSLATORS
  • INTRODUCTION: David R. McCann
  • PART ONE
  • CHU YOHAN (1900–1980)
  • Fireworks
  • Life, Death
  • The Sound of Rain
  • To Catch the Moon
  • Kim Sowol (1902–1934)
  • Azaleas
  • A Day Long After
  • The Golden Meadow
  • Mountain Flowers
  • The Road Away
  • Cigarette
  • The Cuckoo
  • The Road
  • Forsaken
  • YI SANGHWA (1901–1943)
  • Will Spring Return to Stolen Fields?
  • HAN YONG'UN (1879–1944)
  • (Preface)
  • Your Silence
  • I Cannot Know
  • Artist
  • Ferryboat and the Traveler
  • Your Touch
  • The Master’s Sermon
  • Love’s Reasons
  • Inverse Proportion
  • Upon Reading Tagore’s “The Gardener”
  • The Embroidery’s Secret
  • Come to Me
  • To the Readers
  • YI YUKSA (1904–1944)
  • Twilight
  • Thatched House
  • A Small Park
  • The Summit
  • Blue Grapes
  • IM HWA (1908–1953)
  • My Brother and the Brazier
  • The Pier of Yokohama Under the Umbrella
  • CHONG CHIYONG (1902–?)
  • Homesickness
  • Windowpane 1
  • Spring Snow
  • Paengnokdam: White Deer Lake
  • Star
  • Sea 6
  • Home
  • Rain
  • KIM YONGNANG (1903–1950)
  • Someone Who Knows My Heart
  • Until Peonies Bloom
  • Intoxicating Moonlight
  • At the Sight of Water
  • An Endless River Flows
  • Selections from “Quatrains”
  • YI SANG (1910–1937)
  • From Crow’s-Eye View
  • POEM NO. I
  • POEM NO. II
  • POEM NO. III
  • POEM NO. VII
  • POEM NO. IX
  • POEM NO. X: BUTTERFLY
  • POEM NO. XIII
  • POEM NO. XV
  • Flowering Tree
  • Paper Memorial Stone
  • Precipice
  • I Wed a Toy Bride
  • 1 Evening
  • 2 Evening
  • Mirror
  • Two People . . . 1 . .
  • Two People . . . 2 . .
  • Face
  • Motion
  • Performance Angel
  • Publications Law
  • ll. IN A CERTAIN POLICE DETECTIVE'S SECRET INTERROGATION ROOM
  • lll. SPECIAL EDITION
  • Assassination
  • Noon—A Certain
  • NO CH'ONMYONG (1912–1957)
  • Road
  • Spring of the Steel Bar Window
  • A Lemon for Me
  • Nostalgia
  • Deer
  • Performer, Male
  • Nameless Woman
  • PAEK SOK (1912–?)
  • Samch’pnp’o
  • Mountain Rain
  • Sound of the Mountain Bird
  • Natasha, the White Donkey, and I
  • On the White Wall
  • YUN TONGJU (1918–1945)
  • Self-portrait
  • Foreword
  • His Last Words
  • Hospital
  • The Cross
  • Yet Another Home
  • One Night I Count the Stars
  • A Poem That Came Easily
  • SO CHONGJU (1915-2000)
  • Self-portrait
  • Leper
  • Midday
  • Blue Days
  • Beside a Chrysanthemum
  • Winter Sky
  • Like a Wind from Lotus Blossoms
  • In the Old Capital
  • Autumn, 1949
  • At THE "FLOWER" TEA ROOM
  • Wanderer’s Bouquet
  • Such A Land
  • The Great Wave
  • New Year’s Prayer: 1976
  • At a Wine House near Taegu
  • The Floor in Goethe’s House
  • Cuckoo and Skylark
  • PAK MOGWOL (1916–1978)
  • Blue Deer
  • Family
  • The Nature Of Gravel
  • 10. TODAY
  • 14. ETERNITY OF PURE COLOR
  • April
  • The Wayfarer
  • A Bare Wind
  • Hanbok
  • CHO CHIHUN (1920–1968)
  • Spring Day
  • The Nun’s Dance
  • Falling Petals
  • As I Play the Flute
  • Waiting
  • Ancient Temple
  • At Toriwpn
  • PAK TUJIN (1916–1998)
  • Song in a Graveyard
  • Sun
  • Book of Poems
  • Tobong Mountain
  • Inscription Etched by Water
  • PART TWO
  • KIM SUYONG (1921–1968)
  • Emerging from the Old Palace One Day
  • A Beauty
  • Sex
  • The Journal Encounter
  • Vinegar of Cruelty
  • A Lonely Journey
  • Ha . . . No Shadows
  • Snow
  • Grass
  • PAK INHWAN (1926–1956)
  • The Rocking Horse and the Lady
  • A Sleepless Night
  • Towards a New Resolve
  • When Seasons Pass
  • Fortnight
  • KIM CH'UNSU (1922–)
  • Flower
  • Prelude to a Poem
  • Snow Over Chagall’s Village
  • Lilac Petals
  • Masks
  • Riding A Mule
  • KU SANG (1919–)
  • Shame
  • Wings
  • HONG YUNSUK (1925–)
  • Discourse on an Ornament
  • That I Can Do This Autumn
  • My Sea Has One Island
  • KIM NAMJO (1927–)
  • Moonlit Night
  • For Baby
  • Evening Primrose
  • Love’s Cursive (Selections)
  • PAK CHAESAM (1933–1997)
  • Looking at Winter Trees
  • The Road Back
  • Sound of the Taffy-Seller’s Shears
  • Immortals’ Paduk Game
  • Spring’s Path
  • Night at Tonghak Temple
  • Nothing
  • Autumn River in Burning Tears
  • Untitled
  • SHIN KYONGNIM (1936–)
  • The Baby
  • Legend
  • They
  • Farmer’s Dance
  • Country Bus Station
  • Market’s Closing
  • That Day
  • On a Winter’s Night
  • The Road
  • Graveside Memorial
  • KO UN (1933–)
  • Crossing Rice Fields at Nightfall
  • Beside the Evening River
  • For an Island
  • Impermanence
  • Great Springtime
  • A Slice of Moon
  • Into the Woods
  • Memory of the Graves
  • No-More-Daughters’s
  • Chrysanthemums
  • HWANG TONGGYU (1938–)
  • Wind Burial 1
  • Wind Burial 3
  • A Happy Letter
  • When I See a Wheel
  • One Flower and Another Flower
  • Wind Burial
  • The Cricket
  • Port Of Call
  • SHIN TONGYOP (1930–1969)
  • Kum River (Extracts)
  • CHONG HYONJONG (1939–)
  • Greenly the Earth
  • Country Bus at Night
  • Like Leaving an Umbrella Somewhere
  • Are You a Star?
  • The Blood of Daybreak
  • KIM CHIHA (1941–)
  • Core
  • Truth
  • No One
  • The Road to Seoul
  • Well
  • The Story of a Sound
  • In Burning Thirst
  • KANG UN' GYO (1945–)
  • Woman
  • Love’s Way
  • A Poem’s Visit
  • Azalea
  • Sleet
  • Sound 8
  • IM YONGJO (1943–)
  • Winter Tree
  • A Carpenter’s Song
  • Textbook
  • Matches
  • Soap
  • KIM SUNGHUI (1952–)
  • Sun Mass
  • Horror Movie
  • Life In The Egg 3
  • Song of Children in the Land of Ice Who Love the Sun
  • Roses and Thorns
  • KIM HYESUN (1955–)
  • Ripe Apple
  • The Old Hotel
  • Saturday Night, Arriving in Seoul
  • In the Night
  • The Titanic, Reincarnate
  • Women
  • Remembering the Day I Gave Birth to a Daughter
  • HWANG JIWOO(1952–)
  • Variety Show, 1984
  • Memo on Composition
  • Out of the Winter-Tree Into the Spring-Tree
  • Melancholy
  • MIRROR 1
  • MIRROR 2
  • MIRROR 3
  • PAK NOHAE (1957-)
  • How Much Is This One?
  • The Road to Corruption
  • The Wind to the Stones

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