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Pebble scrap

by Choi Dong-Hogo link Translated by Sophie Bowmango link March 10, 2016

Author Bio 작가 소개

최동호

Choi Dong-Ho

Choi Dong-Ho

Seated back resting on a cool wall
audible to my thinned ears
 
raindrops falling in the cold wind
from the eaves of a mountain village earthen house
 
winter snow skirting a walled path
makes way for new shoots and, minnows
 
spring light black-pupiled
a pebble glistens sprouting sound of breath.
 

 


Translated by Sophie Bowman

Writer 필자 소개

Choi Dong-Ho

Choi Dong-Ho

Choi Dong-ho (born 1948) is a South Korean poet, critic, and professor. He studied Korean literature at Korea University at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He taught Korean literature until his retirement at Korea University, where he is professor emeritus. He published his first poetry collection in 1976, and debuted as a critic when his critical essay won the Joongang Ilbo New Writer’s Contest in 1979. He has written a number of monographs on the spirit of poetry, Eastern poetics, and geukseojeongsi ("extreme lyric poetry"), a term he coined to describe short, easy to understand, and highly evocative poetry. He won the Park Dujin Literary Award in 2009 and the Yushim Award in 2013. Currently, he serves as the president of the Society of Korean Poets and Sisarang Arts and Culture Association.

Translator 번역가 소개

Sophie Bowman

Sophie Bowman

Sophie Bowman is a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. She has an MA in Korean literature from Ewha Womans University and won the 2015 Korea Times Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards Grand Prize for Poetry. Her translations have appeared in Guernica, Modern Poetry in Translation, and Koreana.

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