Enough to Say It"s Far (ebook)

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"McCann and Shin have executed what seem to me a perfect set of translations. The work is all of a piece, and all very fine."--Richard Howard, series editor of the Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, and author of Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003

"This translation of selected poems by one of South Korea's most respected lyric poets illuminates his work for the first time in English. These poems do not neglect to remind the reader of irrecoverable time, but insist on the mind's ability to bear the richness of what has been lost, captured in Pak's image of the persimmon, the deep orange fruit arriving late in the year. The poems have been rendered in an evocative English afterlife by the translators. Their decisions, particularly regarding words difficult to translate, prove to be astute and effective. It is a welcome work that fills a large gap in Korean poetry in English."--Ann Y. Choi, Rutgers University0Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
Soaring Dragon Waterfall 3
Han 5
Sound of the Taffy Seller's Shears 7
Landscape 9
Thousand-Year Wind 11
From the Song of a Celebrated Singer 13
A Path of a Heavenly Maiden 15
Autumn River in Burning Tears 17
Some Day, Some Month 19
As Summer Goes and Autumn Comes 21
Landscape Painter 23
Enough to Say It's Far 25
In the Wind 27
Waking Alone at Dawn 29
Spring's Pathway 31
News from Home 33
Immortals' Paduk Game 35
Untitled 37
Night at Tonghak Temple 39
Seeing the Ferry 41
My First Love 43
In an Empty Courtyard 45
Nothing 47
Seeing the Fresh Green 49
The Feeling of the Gingko 51
Recollection 13 53
Spring Path 55
The Road Back 57
New Arirang 59
Looking at Winter Trees 61
Spring Riverside 63
By the Night Sea 65
Having a Drink 67
Poplar 69
Friend, You Have Gone 71
My Poem 73
At the River 75
Recollection 18 77
Recollection 29 79
I Know the Heart of the Wildgoose 81
Without Title 83
On a Rainy Day 85
Tree 87
Autumn Sea 89
Flowers on a Dead Tree 91
Song of Death 93
Diary in Summer Heat 95
Flowers May Bloom 97
Four-Line Poems 99
1 Brightness 99
2 With One Head 101
3 Place 103
4 A Song 105
Baby's Foot on My Brow 107
Asking Not Understanding 109
What You Sent Me 111
P'iri Hole 113
Days and Months 115
Parenthetical 117
Before the Wind 119
What I Learned from the Sea 121
Looking at the Sunlight 123
Shimmering 125
Small Song 127
Stars 129
By the Mountain 131
As for Love 133
After an Illness 135
Going to the Mountain 137
Place Where I Look at Islands 139
Recollection 16 141
Autumn Coming 143
A Night When Sleep Is Far 145
Translators' Epilogue 147