Even Birds Leave the World

Ji-Woo Hwang

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices | nr. 10
• Ji-Woo Hwang's poems describe a life governed by the inescapable reality that all hell may break loose at any time, a reality that now permeates our o... Lees meer

Among the Flowering Reeds

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices
• Up until the 17th century, the bulk of Korean poetry was written in Chinese, the language of poets, scholars, and monks. This work became an integral ... Lees meer

The Depths of a Clamshell

Brother Anthony

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices | nr. 9
• Kim Kwang-kyu was born in Seoul in 1941 and is a professor in the German language and literature department at Hanyang University. He has written poet... Lees meer

Brother Enemy

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices
• Twenty-one poets, male and female, North Korean and South Korean, well-known and long forgotten, appear in this collection, the first of its kind in E... Lees meer

Garden Chrysanthemums and First Mountain Snow

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices
• Korea's Zen tradition has always been vibrant and continues to thrive today. This book gives voice to the "Zen mind" of Korea's contemporary Zen Maste... Lees meer

Strong Winds at Mishi Pass

Tong-Gyu Hwang

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices
• The first widely available translation in English of one of South Korea's most important contemporary poets. Tong-Gyu Hwang is recognized as one of th... Lees meer

Echoing Song

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices | nr. 8
• 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 poem... Lees meer

Borderland Roads

Ho Kyun

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices
• "Ho Kyun's poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries later, Ho's poetry ... Lees meer

One Human Family and Other Stories

Yeun-Hee Chung

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices
• The devastating hold the Korean War still has on the ordinary citizens of South Korea is revealed here in a novella and four short stories. Although t... Lees meer

Woman on the Terrace

Moon Chung-Hee

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices
• Moon Chung-hee's lyrical poems represent poignant self-examination, evoking moments of bewilderment and hopeful resignation to the passage of time and... Lees meer

Someone Always in the Corner of My Eye

Boseon Shim

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices | nr. 21
• A Korean voice from a new generation of cutting-edge poets that will appeal to younger writers and readers. Shim includes deeply personal poems, lyric... Lees meer

Nobody Checks the Time When They're Happy

Heekyung Eun

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices | nr. 24
• No One Checks the Time When They're Happy is a collection of stories, by turns sad and funny, about the thwarted expectations of the young as they gro... Lees meer

We, Day by Day

Eun Young Jin

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices | nr. 25
• Whether suturing NoHae Park and Pablo Neruda together in a cinematic sweep or refusing the global economy's demands to rush and sign over one's litera... Lees meer

Wolves

Jeon Sungtae

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices | nr. 22
• "Written in a beautifully rendered, nuanced language, Wolves is a window into a little-known world." --Krys Lee - Author of How I Became a North Korea... Lees meer

I Must Be the Wind

Moon Chung-Hee

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices | nr. 19
• "'Dazzling strokes of falling stars in falling water. I want to write poems like that, ' writes Moon Chung-hee. Thanks to Silberg and You, these poems... Lees meer

Magnolia and Lotus

Hyesim

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices | nr. 17
• "Hyesim's poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpa... Lees meer

One Day, Then Another

Kwang Ku Kim

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices | nr. 18
• These poems give voice to the voiceless. His poetic task is to find a way to honor the weak and disenfranchised through small cautious steps into the ... Lees meer

Modern Family

Myeong-Kwan Cheon

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices | nr. 19
• Forty-year-old In-mo, a movie director who's been jobless for the past decade decides to move in with his widowed mother. His older brother, with five... Lees meer

What Makes a City

Park Seong-Won

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices
• "What Is It That Makes Up a City? provides the reader with an intelligent perspective on the strange culture of our times and a series of adventures t... Lees meer

Eyes of Dew

Chonggi Mah

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices
• Chonggi Mah represents a unique figure in Korean poetry similar to that of William Carlos Williams, but with a twist. While he is recognized as an awa... Lees meer

Wild Apple

Heeduk Ra

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices | nr. 20
• "HeeDuk Ra's poems evoke thoughts about time and language . . . Through her work, time does not glide nor stand on the edge. It crumbles."--SeokJo Gan... Lees meer

Scale and Stairs

Heeduck Ra

• Paperback | Engels | Korean Voices | nr. 13
• The poems of Heeduck Ra are charged with a friction between image and idea, sound and sense. She glimpses an arc, which may light a path from the visi... Lees meer