Korean Voices – serie
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18 produkter
Echoing Song
Contemporary Korean Women Poets
Av Peter H. Lee
Häftad, 2005
179 kr
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This first comprehensive anthology of modern Korean women's poetry in English demonstrates the originality and variety of the twenty poets whose work is presented. Each poet is represented with a group of poems that reflects her poetic development, and most have written a brief statement expressing …
Scale and Stairs
Av Heeduck Ra
Häftad, 2009
184 kr
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The poems of Heeduck Ra are charged with a friction between image and idea, sound and sense. She glimpses an arc, which may light a path from the visible world to the invisible. Her work occupies the ever-shifting border region between what we know and what we do not know, a zone in which to …
Depths of a Clamshell
Selected Poems of Kim Kwang-Kyu
Häftad, 2005
172 kr
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Kim Kwang-Kyu was born in Seoul in 1941 and is a professor in the German language and literature department at Hanyang University. He has written poetry sharply critical of the abuses of human dignity caused by corrupt politics and the structural contradictions brought about by the …
Even Birds Leave the World
Selected Poems of Ji-woo Hwang
Av Ji-woo Hwang
Häftad, 2006
142 kr
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Ji-Woo Hwang's poems describe a life governed by the inescapable reality that all hell may break loose at any time, a reality that now permeates our own culture. His poems mix lyrical intensity with an acute political sensibility, creating an uneasy tension that makes them by turns moving, …
Among the Flowering Reeds
Classic Korean Poems Written in Chinese
Av Kim Jong-gil
Häftad, 2003
172 kr
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Up until the 17th century, the bulk of Korean poetry was written in Chinese, the language of poets, scholars and monks. This anthology includes 100 poems spanning over 1000 years. Lovers of Chinese and Japanese poetry will delight in these translations, which capture both the elegant simplicity and …
Eyes of Dew
Selected Poems of Chonggi Mah
Av Chonggi Mah
Häftad, 2006
172 kr
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Chonggi Mah represents a unique figure in Korean poetry similar to that of William Carlos Williams, but with a twist. While he is recognized as an award-winning poet in Korea, he has worked in the United States as a doctor and professor. Many of his poems reflect his work as a doctor and concerns …
Woman on the Terrace
Häftad, 2007
154 kr
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Moon Chung-hee's lyrical poems represent poignant self-examination, evoking moments of bewilderment and hopeful resignation to the passage of time and imprisoning conditions of her life. Her work explores the desire to escape the fetters of domesticity as a vehicle for understanding a woman's …
One Human Family and Other Stories
Häftad, 2008
167 kr
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The devastating hold the Korean War still has on the ordinary citizens of South Korea is revealed here in a novella and four short stories. Although the war happened many years ago, old animosities remain, and elderly nursing home residents are traumatized by their belief that the new resident was …
Borderland Roads
The Selected Poems of Ho Kyun
Av Ho Kyun
Häftad, 2010
172 kr
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"Ho Kyun's poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries later, Ho's poetry strikes many parallels-the experiences of war and exile and constant struggle-and his voice is similarly humane. This is rich and enlightening …
Garden Chrysanthemums and First Mountain Snow
Zen Questions and Answers from Korea
Av Ian Haight
Häftad, 2010
149 kr
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Korea's Zen tradition has always been vibrant and continues to thrive today. This book gives voice to the "Zen mind" of Korea's contemporary Zen Masters, articulated through koans and excerpts of conversations in the form of brief questions and answers with students and other teachers.
Magnolia and Lotus
Selected Poems of Hyesim
Häftad, 2013
168 kr
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"Hyesim's poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images' beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The shelf of essential Zen poets for American …
One Day, Then Another
Av Kwang Ku Kim
Häftad, 2014
168 kr
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These poems give voice to the voiceless. His poetic task is to find a way to honor the weak and disenfranchised through small cautious steps into the cracks of this hidden world. Kim Kwang-Kyu most recent translation in English is The Depth of a Clam. He lives in Seoul, Korea.
I Must Be the Wind
Häftad, 2015
172 kr
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"'Dazzling strokes of falling stars in falling water. I want to write poems like that,' writes Moon Chung-hee. Thanks to Silberg and You, these poems dazzle bright in English. Here love is violent and 'suffered, an encysted stone ...wedged' in the heart, and defiance trembles the soul: 'Dress up …
Modern Family
Häftad, 2015
168 kr
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Forty-year-old In-mo, a movie director who's been jobless for the past decade decides to move in with his widowed mother. His older brother, with five criminal convictions, has already moved back. Then younger sister Mi-yeon arrives with her bratty, rebellious fifteen-year-old daughter. Mom is …
Wild Apple
Av HeeDuk Ra
Häftad, 2015
172 kr
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"HeeDuk Ra's poems evoke thoughts about time and language ...Through her work, time does not glide nor stand on the edge. It crumbles."-SeokJo Gang, literary critic Wild Apple takes the reader to cultural and intellectual experiences: Native American burial mounds, cremations at the Ganges River, …
Someone Always in the Corner of My Eye
Av BoSeon Shim
Häftad, 2016
168 kr
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A Korean voice from a new generation of cutting-edge poets that will appeal to younger writers and readers. Shim includes deeply personal poems, lyric experiments, and strong social statements that reflects the voices of a community. His grandiose illusions and underprivileged whispers challenge us …
Wolves
Av Jeon Sungtae
Häftad, 2017
172 kr
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Written in a beautifully rendered, nuanced language, Wolves is a window into a little-known world.”Krys Lee - Author of How I Became a North KoreanSungtae’s short stories build a unique world through their consummate construction and firm roots in reality. With Mongolia as the physical background …
Nobody Checks the Time When They're Happy
Av Heekyung Eun
Häftad, 2017
172 kr
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No One Checks the Time When They're Happy is a collection of stories, by turns sad and funny, about the thwarted expectations of the young as they grow older. Eun Heeyung's characters are misfits who, by virtue of their bodies or their lack of social status, are left to dream of momentous changes …
