Enough to Say It's Far : Selected Poems of Pak Chaesam / Chaesam Pak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pak, Chae-sam, author.

Contributor:

McCann, David R.

Shin, Jiwon.

Series:

Lockert library of poetry in translation.

Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation ; 56

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections English & Korean

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 pages).

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2006]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first English translation of selected poems by one of the most important and unusual modern poets of South Korea. In contrast to the strident political protests found in the poetry of many of his contemporaries, Pak Chaesam's work is characterized by intimate portraits of place, nature, childhood, and human relationships, and by indirection, nostalgia, and reflectiveness. Often focused upon the border of this world and some other, Pak writes with a spareness of presentation but a cornucopia of imagery, meticulously exploring objective and subjective realms of existence and memory. Encouraging the reader to see and listen, and to allow the sensory to reshape the analytical, Pak's poetry opens up new realms of experience. A fellow Korean poet described Pak's poetry as being "the most exquisite expression of the Korean sense of han," or melancholy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Soaring Dragon Waterfall

Han

Sound of the Taffy Seller's Shears

Landscape

Thousand-Year Wind

From the Song of a Celebrated Singer

A Path of a Heavenly Maiden

Autumn River in Burning Tears

Some Day, Some Month

As Summer Goes and Autumn Comes

Landscape Painter

Enough to Say It's Far

In the Wind

Waking Alone at Dawn

Spring's Pathway

News from Home

Immortals' Paduk Game

Untitled

Night at Tonghak Temple

Seeing the Ferry

My First Love

In an Empty Courtyard

Nothing

Seeing the Fresh Green

The Feeling of the Gingko

Recollection 13

Spring Path

The Road Back

New Arirang

Looking at Winter Trees

Spring Riverside

By the Night Sea

Having a Drink

Poplar

Friend, You Have Gone

My Poem

At the River

Recollection 18

Recollection 29

I Know the Heart of the Wildgoose

Without Title

On a Rainy Day

Tree

Autumn Sea

Flowers on a Dead Tree

Song of Death

Diary in Summer Heat

Flowers May Bloom

Four-Line Poems

1. Brightness

2. With One Head

3. Place

4. A Song

Baby's Foot on My Brow

Asking Not Understanding

What You Sent Me

P'iri Hole

Days and Months

Parenthetical

Before the Wind

What I Learned from the Sea

Looking at the Sunlight

Shimmering

Small Song

Stars

By the Mountain

As for Love

After an Illness

Going to the Mountain

Place Where I Look at Islands

Recollection 16

Autumn Coming

A Night When Sleep Is Far

Translators' Epilogue

Backmatter

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781400827053

1400827051

OCLC:

966771379