I Must Be the Wind
Will be published approx. on 15. January 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-935210-60-3 (ISBN)
Description
"'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 for men, you say? / Nonsense / I stripped / for them ...the world's women / root on earth, naked.' Chung-hee casts off 'the watch and mink stole,' and exclaims: 'I want to be a free dancer from now on.'"--Sholeh Wolpe Moon Chung-hee's poetry is passionate, impetuous, a poetry of love, epiphany, feminist assertion, even rebellion. Richard Silberg co-translated, with Clare You, The Three Way Tavern and This Side of Time, by Ko Un. He is author of The Horses: New and Selected Poems. Clare You is the Chair of the Center for Korean Studies at USC Berkeley, and has co-translated modern Korean poetry and fiction into English.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Buffalo
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
212 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-935210-60-3 (9781935210603)
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Richard Silberg: Richard Silberg is the associate editor of Poetry Flash, is author of five books of poetry including The Fields, and Doubleness and the book of essays Reading the Sphere. Claire You: Clare You, is the Chair of the Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and received the Korean National Silver Medal of Culture in 2003 for her work in the advancement of Korean culture. She is author of two language textbooks including College Korean.
Content
Contents
I
Naked Trees
Wine
First Snow
A Chestnut Story
Asking Directions
Willow Flowers
Fountainhead
A Favor
Autumn Wound
II
A Notebook
Storm
Husband
Comfortable Person
Raising a Star
A Woman Changing a Tire
Men Reconsidered
I Wish I Had a Wife
Airport Letter
III
Suknam Flower
The Boy
I Wash Windows
Solitude
I Want to Become a Donkey
Unh hunh
IV
Poems to a Tree
I Must Be a Bad Poet
Morning Letter
Free Dancer
Dying Alone
The Net
Reasons to Love
V
Viola: It May Rain
To a Young Love
The Winter Wind
Song of Hwang Jini
A Dawn Cry from Mexico
Success
VI
Train South
Memories
A Package
Weekend
Where Is My Home
Rainbows in Seoul
Lucky Lecture
VII
Love Is No Fire
Airport at Dawn
A Day in the Sahara
Suddenly
First Meeting
-A Love Song for Rilke
Poet's House
VIII
For Men
Fall Ghosts
Living With a Poet
Breasts
Cold Rice
Autumn
Song of a Balloon
IX
Waiting for You in a Mask
Hot News
A Moth's Poem
Crazy Promise
Lost
Dawn Birds
A Vagrant's Diary
Companion Waves
Sea School
Sewing Sea
Sorrow of Lido
Understanding
X
Legacy
Fog
The Things I've Done
Snow Mountain
I
Naked Trees
Wine
First Snow
A Chestnut Story
Asking Directions
Willow Flowers
Fountainhead
A Favor
Autumn Wound
II
A Notebook
Storm
Husband
Comfortable Person
Raising a Star
A Woman Changing a Tire
Men Reconsidered
I Wish I Had a Wife
Airport Letter
III
Suknam Flower
The Boy
I Wash Windows
Solitude
I Want to Become a Donkey
Unh hunh
IV
Poems to a Tree
I Must Be a Bad Poet
Morning Letter
Free Dancer
Dying Alone
The Net
Reasons to Love
V
Viola: It May Rain
To a Young Love
The Winter Wind
Song of Hwang Jini
A Dawn Cry from Mexico
Success
VI
Train South
Memories
A Package
Weekend
Where Is My Home
Rainbows in Seoul
Lucky Lecture
VII
Love Is No Fire
Airport at Dawn
A Day in the Sahara
Suddenly
First Meeting
-A Love Song for Rilke
Poet's House
VIII
For Men
Fall Ghosts
Living With a Poet
Breasts
Cold Rice
Autumn
Song of a Balloon
IX
Waiting for You in a Mask
Hot News
A Moth's Poem
Crazy Promise
Lost
Dawn Birds
A Vagrant's Diary
Companion Waves
Sea School
Sewing Sea
Sorrow of Lido
Understanding
X
Legacy
Fog
The Things I've Done
Snow Mountain