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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Page 60
... child stands alone . At long winter's end for whatever reason , he has not perished but with beaming smile stands alone . Who brought him grub ? Firewood ? The child grows larger , imposing . Looks out upon a ridgeline of brontosaurs ...
... child stands alone . At long winter's end for whatever reason , he has not perished but with beaming smile stands alone . Who brought him grub ? Firewood ? The child grows larger , imposing . Looks out upon a ridgeline of brontosaurs ...
Page 109
... children & the child who died , & the child who left home , never heard of since , & others ' children , all said to live there . I crossed from this side of Namsan to that side , & that side over to this , all day long & a second day ...
... children & the child who died , & the child who left home , never heard of since , & others ' children , all said to live there . I crossed from this side of Namsan to that side , & that side over to this , all day long & a second day ...
Page 110
... held each generation of their children . It was the heart in which they buried their children . The moonlight that stammers in the night was my child . - NUCH'EN HERMITAGE Chongseong is a fair distance from Kilju City 110.
... held each generation of their children . It was the heart in which they buried their children . The moonlight that stammers in the night was my child . - NUCH'EN HERMITAGE Chongseong is a fair distance from Kilju City 110.
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Evening | 1 |
Graven Buddhas at Seosan Southern Chungcheong | 7 |
Chilbo Mountain | 14 |
Copyright | |
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ancient Aoji bitches blossoms bridge Buddhist Ch'ilbo Cheju Island Cheolla child China Chinese Chinp'a Chosun Dynasty dance Diamond Mountain DPRK Eastern Sea face father field flowers forest frozen potatoes Gate of Enlightenment grave Hamgyeong Hamheung Hangul Heaven's Lake Hongnyu Hwanghae Hyangsan Hyesan Japan Japanese Kama Ridge Kim Ok-gyun King Kingdom Ko Un Koguryeo Komo Ridge Korean peninsula Kwangju Kyeongju Kyeongsang land Lee Gye-jo Lee Seong-gye looking Manchuria Maple Village monk Myohyang Myohyang Mountain Nabawi night North Korea Northern Hamgyeong Nuch'en Okjeo OSE HERMITAGE P'aesu Paekdu Mountain Paekje pagoda palanquins Palhae Pavilion pine poem poet poetry Puyeo Pyongyang Red Maple Village Rhee Syng-man rock Seonyu Seorak Seoul Shi-mae Shilla sijo snow song sound South & North southern stone Buddha Supung Dam Supung Lake Taedong River Tangun tomb trees Truce Line Ulleung waves Wihwa Island wind Wonsan Yalu River