Bari's Love Song

Bari's Love Song

Bari's Love Song

Bari's Love Song

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Overview

In her early career, Kang Eun-Gyo marked nihilism as the departure of her poetic imagination. In response to the turmoil of the world and modern Korean history full of violence and violations of human rights, the poet struggled to build her poetry in a house of nothingness. With Bari’s Love Song, Kang Eun-Gyo echoes the voice of a sorceress, a female shaman who treats the sadness, suffering, loss, and pain of all people. From the private losses of the poet to the universal songs of losses and love, Bari’s Love Song portrays the modern history of Korea in the forms of songs and recollections of Bari, the princess from Korean folk literature who walked the land in search of hope.

Kang Eun-Gyo made her literary debut with the publication of Night of the Pilgrims, which earned her the 1968 New Writer Prize by the journal Sasanggye (World of Thoughts). Her most significant poetry collections are House of Nothingness, Diary of a Pauper, House of Noises, Red Rivers, Song of the Wind, and Letter in the Wall. Kang was also the recipient of the Korean Writers Prize and the Contemporary Literature Award.

About the Translator

Chung Eun-Gwi is Professor in the Department of English Literature at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul. Her publications include Ah, Mouthless Things (2017), Fifteen Seconds without Sorrow (2016), The Colors of Dawn: Twentieth Century Korean Poetry (2016), and When the Wind Blows (2019) Her articles and translations have appeared in a wide variety of journals.

This book is published with the support of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea)


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781643170824
Publisher: Parlor Press
Publication date: 05/06/2019
Series: Free Verse Editions
Pages: 74
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.18(d)

Table of Contents

Translator’s Preface Abel Bookstore Immortality Hyehwa-dong The Sound of Water in Baekmudong Love and Eternity Cherry Blossom Train Poetry and a Golden Kiss An Envelope Severe Illness A Knife My Street What I Have At This Moment A Word A Longed-For Village A Round Roof Green Sleeves Eunpo Station A Blind Alley Address Drizzle Let’s Make a Path Red Maple For You An Anchor Vine Leaves Lighthouse Song In the Subway A Wandering Star Song of Three Sisters The Sound of Footsteps The Floor’s Song An Empty Jar For a Dance Now Hold Out Your Hands A Stamen Future A Harbor At Each Valley Soil A Slope A Couple’s Laundry Smartphone A Self-Service Gas Station A Vampire Building The Golden-Haired Tiger of ‘Hotel Peninsula’ Redevelopment Loneliness Closer, yet Closer Older Sister Yeong-Ju Jajangmyeon Ah, The Things That Make Me Write Poems Again Today Dedicating to Myself Seomyun The Woman in Tula The Family Photo of Mr. Taejoon Lee 1 Free Verse Editions About the Author About the Translator

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