Three Poets of Modern Korea PDF Download

Author: Sang Yi
Publisher: Sarabande Books
ISBN: 9781889330716
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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An eclectic sampling of modern Korean poetry, superbly translated by husband and wife team.

Author: Sŭng-ja Ch'oe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Bilingual selection of three contemporary korean women poets at the forefront of the Korean literary scene.

Author: Si-yŏng Yi
Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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This book showcases the work of three major Korean poets born at fourteen-year intervals, in 1921, 1935, and 1949. Each has tried to renew Korean poetry by bringing it into closer contact with everyday speech, social issues, and ordinary people's lives. Kim Su-Young was a major pioneer, first developing as a Modernist but then moving toward a poetry that addresses social issues and uses ordinary language. Shin Kyong-Nim spent years living among the simple working people of rural Korea. Today Lee Si-Young writes in a similar spirit about the pain and dignity of humble lives. In this bilingual volume, a wide selection of these three poets' most significant work is made available in English for the first time.

Author: Un Ko
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520939134
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Ko Un, the preeminent Korean poet of the twentieth century, embraces Buddhism with the versatility of a master Taoist sage. A beloved cultural figure who has helped shape contemporary Korean literature, Ko Un is also a novelist, literary critic, ex-monk, former dissident, and four-time political prisoner. His verse—vivid, unsettling, down-to-earth, and deeply moving—ranges from the short lyric to the vast epic and 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. This collection, an essential sampling of his poems from the last decade of the twentieth century, offers in deft translation, as lively and demotic as the original, the off-beat humor, mystery, and mythic power of his work for a wide audience of English-speaking readers. It showcases the work of a man whom Allen Ginsberg has called "a magnificent poet, a combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian," who Gary Snyder has said is "a real-world poet!" who "outfoxes the Old Masters and the young poets both," and who Lawrence Ferlinghetti has described as "no doubt the greatest living Korean Zen poet today."

Author: David McCann
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231505949
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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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.

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Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : Asian Humanities Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Ŭn Ko
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Born in 1933 in a small village in Korea's North Cholla Province, Ko Un grew up in a Japanese-controlled land that was soon to experience the horrors of the Korean War. He became a Buddhist monk in 1952 and began writing in the late 1950s. This is his major, ongoing work which began during his imprisonment with a determination to describe every person he had ever met. Maninbo, as it is known in Korea is now in its 20th volume and he has plans for five more before its completion. Collected here is a selection from the first 10 volumes.

Author: Jaihiun Kim
Publisher: Jain Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Korean poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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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.

Author: Frank Stewart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Korean poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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"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 poets--threatened by the authorities with torture, imprisonment, and death--found 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 Ŭn."--Amazon.

Author: Sŭng-ho Ch'oe
Publisher: Homa & Sekey Books
ISBN: 1931907404
Category : Ecology in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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