Echoing Song: Contemporary Korean Women Poets

by Peter H. Lee (Editor)

Overview

Echoing Song presents the work of 20 contemporary Korean women poets active from the 1970s to the present. Each poet is represented with 10 to 15 poems reflecting the range of their poetic development. This anthology demonstrates the originality and variety of modern Korean women’s poetry.

The poets include Yi Hyangji, No Hyangnim, Ch’on Yanghui, Kang Ungyo, Mun Chonghui, Yi Kyongnim, Ko Chonghui, Ch’oe Sungja, Kim Sunghui, Kim Chongnam, Yi Chinmyong, Kim Hyesun, No Hyegyong, Hwang Insuk, Chong Hwajin, Yi Yonju, Yi Sanghui, Pak Sowon, Ho Sugyong and Na Huidok.

Peter Lee is a professor of Korean studies at ULCA and has translated over 20 books.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781893996359
Publisher:	White Pine Press
Publication date:	06/01/2005
Series:	Korean Voices , #8
Pages:	330
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Peter Lee, a professor of Korean Studies at ULCA, is the undisputed pioneer and scholar in the field of Korean Studies. He has written and translated over 20 books of Korean literature.

Table of Contents

	Preface	13
	Introduction	15
30
	Sunrise	30
	Leaf Struck by Bird Droppings	31
	What Did You Do Yesterday?	32
	The March of Dawn	34
	Achromatic Dawn	35
	Reply at an Unknown Place	36
	Ringing in My Ears	38
	The Phoenix	39
	Leaving Home	40
	The Joy of Love	41
	Song of a Balloon in Search of Her Mom's Balloon	42
	The Sea	43
44
	Dream	45
	Windy Day	46
	Black Hole	47
	Autumn Letter	48
	Rooftop Violin	49
	A Country Where Snow Has Not Yet Fallen	50
	Nature	51
	Nursery	52
	Yard	53
	Ap'ae Island I-Diving Woman	54
	Ap'ae Island 45-Once Upon a Time	55
57
	Entering Chikso Fall	57
	Millet Field in my Mind	58
	One Day	59
	Thoughts on a Bird	60
	Mountain Stroll	61
	At Moments Like This, I Always Blush	63
	Crescent Moon	64
	Every Morning in the Mirror	65
	To Single Women	66
	Black Cove	67
68
	Rotation I	69
	Leaves of Grass	70
	Becoming Water	71
	Woods	72
	In the Fog	73
	Sleet	74
	Rise, Grass	75
	Spider	76
	Twilight Song	77
	Woman Hanging Laundry	78
80
	The Storm	80
	The Stare	81
	A Little Kitchen Song	82
	Seeing the Snow	83
	The Letter	84
	To My Son	85
	Song of a Middle-Aged Woman	86
	A Single Blossom	87
	For the Sake of Man	87
	For the Sake of Man Again	88
	An Elderly Woman	90
	To You, My Beloved Ssuma Ch'ien	91
92
	At the Grave	93
	Anam Street 1	94
	Anam Street 2	95
	Korean Women	96
	Oh, Life	97
	Chirping	98
	Song	99
	Certain Sickness, Deep Love	100
	Time 5	101
102
	Our Baby Is a Living Prayer	103
	Prague Spring 6	105
	Prague Spring 8	106
	Let's Open the Dam	107
	A Study of Women's History 4	108
	A Study of Women's History 6	109
	The People of the Earth 8	110
	What Is History? I	111
	On the Way to Ch'ongju	113
	Sisters, Now We Are the Path and the Light	114
	It Will Be a New World	116
	A Letter Written with the Left Hand	117
118
	My Phone Rings Endlessly	119
	About Women	121
	For the Second Time in Thirty-Three Years	122
	House of Memories	123
	From Early on I Was	125
	While Watching Sunset	126
	Instead of a Dream	127
	Night Owl	128
	Portrait of the Marginalized	129
	Untitled 2	130
	Do You Remember Chongp'a Street?	133
	A Voice	134
135
	Life Within an Egg	136
	Female Buddha	140
	Floating Metonymy 2	142
	Love Song for the Belly Button I	144
	Floating Metonymy 5	145
	Growing Pearl I	147
	Institutions	149
	Soaring	150
	Wailer	152
	Mother's Feet	154
	Between Saint and Witch	156
	Na Hyesok's Complex	158
161
	The Sea at Twenty-Four	162
	In the Subway-Getting Used to Ugliness 3	163
	The Woman I Carelessly Killed	164
	Veronica, a Double Life	165
	Poetry	166
	A Phone Call from Immortality	167
	Between May and June	168
	A Leafy Plant of Wisdom	170
	Rain	171
	Women's Words	172
	Women's Language	173
	Images	174
175
	Record of a Certain Summer	176
	Woman Mopping With a Rag Mop	178
	Pure Talk	180
	The Bear	181
	Snow	182
183
	Memories of the Day I Gave Birth to a Daughter	184
	Not Knowing He's Dead	186
	Daybreak in Seoul	187
	National Museum Hallway	189
	Taklamakan	191
	Inside the Iris	192
	Women	193
	A Very Old Hotel	195
	Mice	196
	A Teardrop	197
	Driving During a Shower	198
	A Bloody Clock	199
201
	Peace on Earth	202
	Song of Mary	203
	Triangle, Mirror	205
	Triangle, Comb	206
	Memory of Underdevelopment	207
	Miscellaneous Bouquet	208
	Disease That Arrives at Death	209
	Happy Walk	210
	Face	211
	Wedding	212
	Children on Top of the Hill	213
	Fish and Sauce	215
216
	Dance of Death	216
	Under Her Rib	217
	All Dreams Are Sexual	218
	When He Said, "Soul"	219
	A New Year's Card	220
	I'm Surplus	221
	Sorrow Wakes Me	222
	Two Doors	223
	Huge Mouth	224
	A Walk	225
226
	Dance	227
	A Knife Gets Bigger	228
	The South Yard	230
	The Hidden Path	231
	A Bowl of Mul Kimch'i	232
	The Sewing Box	233
	I'm a Dragonfly Caught in a Net	234
	Sunlight Showers Down in Sheets	235
	Suddenly, the Yard Where Rice and Yeast Brew	236
	Monsoon Season Opens Children's Eyes	237
	The Water in a Gourd	238
239
	A Clinic in a Dangerous Season 1	240
	A Clinic in a Dangerous Season 7	241
	A Clinic in a Dangerous Season 8	242
	Our Old Home	243
	An Open-Eyed Blind Man	244
	For the Sake of Two Screws	245
	Grandmother's Sea	246
	Taking a Watermelon as a Paradigm	247
	Holiday Inside an Incubator	248
	The Bread and I	249
250
	Dracula	251
	Van Gogh	252
	Dickinson's Blue Sleeve	253
	As My Will...	254
	Dance	255
	Organizing a Drawer	256
	For Men to Tell How Human Life Began...	257
	A Morning Stroll	258
	I Ask in the Late Evening	259
	Farewell, My Youth	260
	Night, Work	260
	Igloo! Igloo!	261
262
	Obsession	263
	Menstrual Irregularities	264
	A Recurring Nightmare: My Amputation	265
	A Small Wooden Vessel	266
	The Midnight Caller	267
	To the Man Holding a Sickle	268
	The Wind God Sends Forth	269
	Lies	270
	Plantain	271
	The Highway	272
273
	Love in an Empty Lot	274
	Sober, Remaining	275
	A Weeping Singer	276
	One White Dream	277
	The One at Rest	278
	When I Think About the Past	279
	Poem	280
	No Return	281
	The Butterfly	282
	Train Leaving	282
283
	For Five Minutes	284
	That Place Isn't Far	285
	Dirty Nylons	286
	Women Within Me	287
	Like the Vineyard	288
	Song of Grass	289
	A Cold Rain Comes	290
	Sleeping on the Nail	291
	There Is Such an Evening	292
	Five A.M.	293
	Biographical Notes	295