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Three Poets of Modern Korea

by Hahm Dong-Seon
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781889330716
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Sarabande Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Sarabande Books
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 81
  • Original Price: INR 1299.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 191 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Anthologies (multiple authors) and Asian / General

From the Back Cover
In contemporary Korea, as noted by James Kimbrell and Yu Jung-yul in their introduction, poems are found on mountain boulders, on caf walls, on placemats, T shirts, and television game shows. It is a country in which, for one-thousand years, every candidate for civil service had to pass an exam establishing proficiency as a poet. And yet, though Americans may know something of Koreas modern history of tumultdivision and repressionlittle of the countrys rich and varied poetry has been available to the English-speaking public. In Three Poets of Modern Korea, prize-winning American poet James Kimbrell, and translator and native speaker Yu Jung-yul, have gathered and translated leading representatives of three generations of Korean poets. From the Dada and surrealist influenced work of Yi Sang, to the colloquial, affirming poems of Hahm Dong-seon, and ending with the brilliant sensuality of Choi Young-mi, whose work also asserts a determination to be both a woman and a free individual, Three Poets of Modern Korea is a superb introduction to the largely undiscovered treasures of contemporary Korean poetry. The translations by Kimbrell and Jung-yul, many of which have appeared in premier American literary journals, manage to be faithful to the originals at the same time they take on true life and breath as fluent English versions.

Kimbrell was a recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a "Discovery"/The Nation Award, Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Award, a Whiting Writers' Award, and fellowships from the Ford Foundation and the NEA. His work has been included in the Bread Loaf Anthology, American Poetry, and Legitimate Dangers. He is currently the director of the creative writing program at Florida State.

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