Description for Day-shine
Hardcover. Translator(s): Fusco, Peter; Choe, Wolhee. Num Pages: 127 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 1FPK; DSB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Powerfully inventive poems of love in contemporary life by Chong Hyon-jong, one of the most respected poets writing in Korea. The novelty of his poetic language with its narrative lyricism and provacative philosophy makes it impossible to classify Chong's poetry, and yet it is a holder of tradition which embodies the laws of life as seen by gifted poets in the zen poetic tradition of Korea. Chong Hyon-jong exposes contemporary reality, like a prophet, with profound insight.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University East Asia Program United States
Number of pages
127
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781885445544
SKU
V9781885445544
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Ref
99-1
About Hyon-Jong Chong
Wolhee Choe, Professor of English at Polytechnic University, is the author or translator of other books on poetry, painting, and poetics. Peter Fusco, poet, translator, and teacher of classical literature, died in Spring 1996.
Reviews for Day-shine
This volume introduced to me a remarkable voice from a Korea I hardly know... The imagery is haunting... and precise... Thanks to these sensual translations, we meet a 'mind uncircumscribed.'
David Shapiro Offers superb translation of a poet whose originality in his use of language makes a completely successful rendition impossible. The effort here, however, is both supreme and ... Read more
David Shapiro Offers superb translation of a poet whose originality in his use of language makes a completely successful rendition impossible. The effort here, however, is both supreme and ... Read more