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Author(s)
Kim Sowol김소월
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Translator(s)
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Publisher
Ronsdale PressRonsdale Press
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Country
CANADA
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Language
English(English)
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Year Published
1998
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Category
Poetry 시
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Target User
Adult 성인
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Period
Contemporary 현대
Description 작품 소개
With the appearance of this English translation, Western readers will for the first time be able to appreciate the poetry of Korea’s most revered and popular modern poet. Born at the beginning of the twentieth century, Sowol Kim was the first poet to introduce the Korean vernacular into poetry. His verse combines sharply edged, everyday phrasing with a lyrical lightness of expression that is unique among modern poets. His poems on loss and death evoke the transience of life with a beauty that transcends despair — the triumph of his art.
Sowol has been well served in this translation in which Jaihiun Kim, one of Korea’s finer poets and translators, has combined with Ronald B. Hatch to present Sowol’s poetry in an English translation that is always contemporary yet echoes Sowol’s Eastern tonalities.
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