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Offering a Flower scrap

by Shin Daljago link Translated by Brother Anthony of Taizégo link January 6, 2017

Author Bio 작가 소개

신달자

Shin Dalja

Shin Dalja is a member of the National Academy of Arts, and has served as the chair of the Society of Korean Poets. She has received the Republic of Korea’s Eungwan (Silver Crown) Order of Cultural Merit, the Chong Chi-Yong Literature Prize, the Daesan Literary Award, and the Gong Cho Literature Award. Her poetry collection Paper has been translated into Mongolian and Spanish, and Passionate Love into German.

Do you love me?
With those words
I go clambering up the dizzying cliff.
The higher I climb
the higher the dim cliff rises and above it
the flower
where your answer blooms in secret
and on finding that ecstasy
I must give my life,
the lofty sanctuary
of hands touching,
while I only strive to approach
a sparkling concentration of
extinction.
Freed, freed of the body,
rising as a whirlwind,
that dark moment
when even heaven closes its eyes, giddy,
as by the meeting of eyes
surviving deepest blue
I pluck and offer that flower.

 

 

Translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé and Chung Eun-Gwi

Writer 필자 소개

Shin Dalja

Shin Dalja

Shin Dalja is a member of the National Academy of Arts, and has served as the chair of the Society of Korean Poets. She has received the Republic of Korea’s Eungwan (Silver Crown) Order of Cultural Merit, the Chong Chi-Yong Literature Prize, the Daesan Literary Award, and the Gong Cho Literature Award. Her poetry collection Paper has been translated into Mongolian and Spanish, and Passionate Love into German.

Translator 번역가 소개

Brother Anthony of Taizé

Brother Anthony of Taizé

Brother Anthony of Taizé has lived in South Korea since 1980. He is professor emeritus at Sogang University and chair professor at Dankook University. He has published over fifty volumes of translations of Korean poetry and fiction. His recent publications include volumes of work by Kim Sa-in, Kim Jong-Gil, Ko Hyeong-ryeol, Jeong Ho-seung and Lee Seong-Bok. He took Korean citizenship in 1994. An Sonjae is his official Korean name

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