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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... tomb of the young King Ko Chu - mong , no more than twenty - two , was moved here . Since then some twenty more tombs were brought here , to this the village of death . Ancient Koryeo then was strong , stronger than China . Sui emperors ...
... tomb of the young King Ko Chu - mong , no more than twenty - two , was moved here . Since then some twenty more tombs were brought here , to this the village of death . Ancient Koryeo then was strong , stronger than China . Sui emperors ...
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... tomb , decrepit , decayed ; shards of bone ; a jade hairpin . It was the tomb of an ancient Koguryeo town . Before that , a tomb of ancient Namhaebu , southern capital of the Palhae Kingdom . & given that he had pledged in his youth ...
... tomb , decrepit , decayed ; shards of bone ; a jade hairpin . It was the tomb of an ancient Koguryeo town . Before that , a tomb of ancient Namhaebu , southern capital of the Palhae Kingdom . & given that he had pledged in his youth ...
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... tomb , burying it . But a flute calmed the 10,000 waves of the Eastern Sea — simply the sound of that flute , & the waves disappeared , black clouds cleared from the sky & night was bright with moon . Then the tomb beneath the sea ...
... tomb , burying it . But a flute calmed the 10,000 waves of the Eastern Sea — simply the sound of that flute , & the waves disappeared , black clouds cleared from the sky & night was bright with moon . Then the tomb beneath the sea ...
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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