two novels that followed (Peace Under Heaven and Frozen Fish), Turbid River is a realistic portrayal of life in Korea...... more

One of the greatest living Korean writers here details the quest of a young seminary student seeking transcendence...... more

So Chong Ju, also known by the penname Midang, was born in Sonum village in the North Cholla Province of Korea, in 1915...... more

readier acceptance among readers of the English translations than among Koreans reading the originals, who are often puzzled...... more

These poems by "the happiest man in the world" are full of light though written in dark times. Ch’ôn had the art of...... more

These poems by "the happiest man in the world" are full of light though written in dark times. Ch’ôn had the art of...... more

This book showcases the work of three major Korean poets born at fourteen-year intervals, in 1921, 1935, and 1949. Each...... more

Is the Christian faith something that can peacefully exist alongside all the other aspects of an ordinary human life...... more

Faithful to the Future examines the true nature of Christian Tradition and particularly how it implies a fidelity not...... more

Shin Kyong-Nim’s first volume of poems, Farmers’ Dance (Nong-mu), marked a major new step in the development of modern...... more

"Poetry is a world of the imagination that begins with the loneliness and pain of a first-person persona but does not...... more

There are not many old Korean love tales, but everyone knows the story of Chunhyang. In 1892, the first Korean to visit...... more

This anthology is a compilation of Westerners accounts of their visits to Korea, originally published in books or...... more

For the first time, English-language readers can access the poems of Jeong Ho-seung, who has become one of Korea s most...... more

Posing the question of reciprocity between all things, South Korean Lee Seong-bok s poetry peels back the fragile...... more

For the first time, English-language readers can access the poems of Jeong Ho-seung, who has become one of Korea’s most...... more

. The present volume, fluidly translated by Brother Anthony of Taiz , reflects Oh Sae-young s harmonious fusion of image...... more

international military conflict than Korea. The Colors of Dawn brings together the moving and powerful voices of over forty Korean...... more

Selection from the Korean poet s epic 30-volume series of books featuring a poem about every person he has known in...... more

volumes, from which Patterns selects. Winner of several major awards, Lee won the Republic of Korea Award for Culture and the...... more

poetry to a new level of cosmic reference....... more

Ko Un is like a force of nature. A close contender for the Nobel Prize over the past several years, the august Korean...... more

Kim Yeong-nang (1903-1950) is highly reputed in Korea for the delicate lyricism of his poems. Yet in many ways he has...... more

Kim Yeong-nang (1903-1950) is highly reputed in Korea for the delicate lyricism of his poems. Yet in many ways he has...... more

wrote Modernist poems engaged in the pursuit of ontological issues, under the influence of Yu Ch i-hwan. But before and...... more

Chonggi Mah represents a unique figure in Korean poetry similar to that of William Carlos Williams, but with a twist...... more

"Bodhisattva of Korean poetry, exuberant, demotic, abundant, obsessed with poetic creation . . . Ko Un is a magnificent...... more

University. He has written poetry sharply critical of the abuses of human dignity caused by corrupt politics and the structural...... more

Ko Un grew up in a formerly Japanese-controlled territory that was very much the center of the Korean War. Ten Thousand...... more

Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. The French writer and Nobel Literature laureate J. M. G. Le Cl zio is one of...... more

himself. The poems are those by which he wishes to be remembered. The topics are personal, often the result of a journey back...... more

himself. The poems are those by which he wishes to be remembered. The topics are personal, often the result of a journey back...... more

The first-ever dual-language collection of sijo poems by Kim Ilyeon in Korean and English Reflections that are...... more