Liking in Silence: Poems of Kim Sa-In

by Sa-in Kim, Susan Hwang (Translator), Brother Anthony of Taizi (Translator)

Overview

Kim Sa-in is a devotional poet who ably serves "all the unconsidered things in the world"—a cosmos flower, a turtle dove cooing near a firing range, the way a mourner offers a cup of wine to a widow. His eye for ordinary details that resonate in their new settings, his ability to discern social and political patterns in seemingly random events, his determination to plumb the depths of experience mundane and otherwise—these make him a singular presence in Korean poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781945680342
Publisher:	White Pine Press
Publication date:	09/17/2019
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Kim Sa-in was born in Boeun, North Chungcheon Province, in 1955. He has published two collections of poetry, Night Letters (bame sseuneun pyeonji, 1987) and Liking in Silence (gamanhi joahaneun, 2006), four collections of criticism, including A Deep Reading of the Novels of Park Sang-Ryung (2001), and a book of essays, A Warm Bowl of Rice (2006). Following time in prison in the early 1980s he began writing poetry and co-founded the magazine Poetry and Economy. Among his awards are the Sin Dong-Yeop Grant for Writing (1987), the Modern Literature Prize for poetry (2005), and the Daesan Literature Award for poetry (2006). He teaches creative writing at Dongdeok Women's University, and hosts broadcast programs devoted to poetry and spirituality. In late 2010 he participated in the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. Kim was appointed as the 7th President of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea.

Brother Anthony of Taizé was born in England in 1942 and has been living in Korea since 1980. He taught English literature at Sogang University, Seoul, for many years and is now an emeritus professor there, as well as a chair-professor at Dankook University. He has published more than thirty volumes of English translations of modern Korean poetry, including eight volumes by Ko Un. His Korean name is An Sonjae.

Susan Hwang is a doctoral student studying modern Korean literature at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She received an MA at Columbia Universityand is presently writing her dissertation on the history of literary criticism in South Korea since the mid-1960s, with a focus on the changing relationship between dissident politics and literary production.

Table of Contents

Preface: Why I Write the Way I Write - Kim Sa-in 9

From Liking in Silence

Depth of a Landscape 15

Homeless 16

Cosmos Flower 17

One Spring Night 18

Someone Who Makes a Bridge Feel Lonely 19

Encounter with a Little Toe 20

The Way Back Home 21

Jeonju 22

Rain 23

Buried in the Sea at Yerae 23

Late Autumn I 25

Near a Firing Range 26

Writings of the Dead 27

Gunha-ri in Winter 28

End of Mourning 29

Nobody Knows 30

At Yeongweol. 31

Friends 32

Rememberd Disgrace 33

A Secret Incident 34

Depth of a Landscape 2 35

Homeless 2 36

Memorial to the Filial Devotion of Lee from Gyeongju 37

Rainy Season 38

Busy, Busy 39

Hwajin 41

"A Girl Hunched by the Fire Making Dough Flakes Soup-I Will Be Her Man" 42

Has Love Come? 44

Belated Love 45

Thaw 46

Springtime Sea 47

Deokpyeong Market 48

Late Autumn 2 49

Butterfly 50

Thirty Years, He Mumbles 51

Desperately 53

Cockscomb 54

Rice 55

Hiding a Knife behind a Smile 56

An Empty Room 57

The End of the Road 58

Acacia 59

To a Dried Mugwort Stalk 60

A Summer's Day 61

Off to New York 62

A Lucid Sound 63

Buried Deep 64

The Night before the Lunar New Year 65

A Flower 66

YOL 67

Long Ago 68

Injeolmi Rice Cakes 69

A Bird 70

At the Crossroads 71

Mirror 72

Old Age 73

Return to the West 74

Leaving Him Behind 75

Public Holiday 76

Spring Fever 77

Brother and Sister 78

Yeosu 79

Flower, Let's Go to the River 80

From Beside a Baby Donkey (2015)

A Snail 83

Flat Against the Wall 84

Mokpo 85

Galactic Communications 86

There is No Fighting against Such Odds 87

Mr. Jeon of the Chinese Restaurant 88

The Prime of Life 89

Round Back 90

Bak Yeong-geun 91

Foolish Desert 92

An Old Well 93

Vale of Tears (Sabha) 94

Empty House 95

Bullet Fee 96

Hour K 98

No Shadows 99

A Dream 100

Learning 101

Sutra of the Void 102

Three Days after the Funeral 103

Dedicated To Silence 104

Notes on the Poems 105

The Author 111

The Translators 112