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Dawn of Labor / Nohae Park.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pak, No-hae, Author.
- Series:
- Hawai'i Studies on Korea
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.) : 1 b&w illustration
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2024]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Dawn of Labor, at last translated into English, is the legendary South Korean poet Park Nohae’s first collection, published in 1984 when he was twenty-seven years old. Despite a government ban, the book sold a million copies and propelled Park Nohae as the generation’s leading resistance poet. Dawn of Labor is an enduring classic that shook a society, transformed lives, and demonstrated the power of poetry. The war of night labor once over,I pour cold soju over my aching heart.Ah . . . I can’t go on like this for long.For sure, I can’t go on like this. —“Dawn of Labor”If I ever kill myself, I’ll probably do it at dawn. —“For a Peaceful Evening”We too want to become heaven.Not a dark clouded heaventhat presses down,but a clear blue heavenover a world that lifts one another.—“Heaven”
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on Romanization, Translation, and Glossary
- PART I Our Love, Our Unrelenting Life
- Heaven
- No Way to Stop
- A Newlywed’s Diary
- Made for Each Other
- While I Mend the Bedding
- How Much?
- Where Will We Go?
- The Han River
- Longing
- The Bar Wagon
- Garibong Market
- Calling for Fingerprints
- English Conversation
- Off to Rot
- Record of My Journey with Men
- Incomprehensible Tales
- Becoming Wise
- PART II Dawn of Labor
- Bargain Sale
- The Dream of an Apprentice
- Spring
- Sleepiness
- Working on Sunday
- A Hand Grave
- Maybe
- When I Give You Up
- A Real Worker
- For a Peaceful Evening
- Dawn of Labor
- No Other Way
- Sunset
- PART III For a New Land
- Love
- The Wind to the Stones
- Searching for Food
- Confrontation
- A Song about Leaving
- Am I Drifting?
- Samcheong Reeducation Camp I
- Mother
- A Beautiful Confession
- I Am Nothing Special
- Walls
- Illusions
- Dawn of Labor in Korean
- Glossary
- The Worker-Poet in Mass Culture
- Poet Militant, Poet Inspirational
- About Park Nohae
- About the Translators and Contributor
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2024)
- ISBN:
- 9780824896430
- 0824896432
- OCLC:
- 1428234334
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