Abiding Places: Korea South & NorthPoetry. Translated from the Korean. In ABIDING PLACES, Korean poet Ko Un transfigures his homeland in lovely, observant, and penetrating poems uniting ancient and modern, secular and spiritual, art and politics, North and South. When his former political cellmate Kim Dae-Jung became president of South Korea in 1998, Ko Un became the first citizen from the South to be invited to tour the North. From that visit came this deceptively simple and deeply engaging book. Ko Un is Korea's most prolific living writer. He has published fifteen volumes of poetry and has twice won the prestigious Korean Literature Prize. |
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Evening | 1 |
KeumganggulDiamond Cave | 32 |
Kaema High Desert | 37 |
Copyright | |
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ancient Aoji bitches blossoms Buddhist capital Ch'ilbo Ch'oe Cheju Island Cheolla child China Chinese Chinp'a Chosun Dynasty Confucian dance Diamond Mountain DPRK Eastern Sea face father field flowers forest frozen potatoes Gate of Enlightenment grave Hamgyeong Hamheung Hangul Hwanghae Hyangsan Hyesan Japan Japanese Kama Ridge Keumgang Kim Ok-gyun King Kingdom Ko Un Koguryeo Komo Ridge Korean peninsula Koryeo Dynasty Kwangju Kyeongju Kyeongsang land Lee Gye-jo Lee Seong-gye live looking Maitreya Manchuria monk Myohyang Myohyang Mountain night North Korea Northern Hamgyeong Nuch'en OSE HERMITAGE P'aesu Paekdu Mountain Paekje pagoda Palhae Paniram pine poem poet poetry POTATO NOODLES Puyeo Pyongyang RED MAPLE VILLAGE Rhee Syng-man rock Seonyu Seorak Seoul Shi-mae Shilla sijo snow song sound southern stone Buddha Supung Dam Supung Lake Taedong River Tangun tomb trees truce line Ulleung Uniram Wang Geon waves wind Wonsan Yalu River Yeongsan