Description
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.Author: Chaesam Pak
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 07/23/2006
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.53d
ISBN13: 9780691124469
ISBN10: 0691124469
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Poetry | Asian | General
About the Author
Pak Chaesam (1933-1997) wrote fifteen books of poetry and numerous books of essays, and he won many of South Korea's most prestigious literary prizes. David R. McCann is Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature at Harvard University. Jiwon Shin is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley.