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Borderland Roads Selected Poems Of H Kyun
Hŏ Kyun
Translated from Korean by Ian Haight
Borderland Roads Selected Poems Of H Kyun, by Hŏ Kyun and translated by Ian Haight from Korean, brings Korean-language poetry connected to Korea, Republic of into English through Korean borderlands, classical memory, and a selected path through Hŏ Kyun's restless imagination. Because it is a selected volume, the book also has a curatorial task: to make one poet's range feel available without pretending to exhaust it. I would read it for roads, exile, scholarship, and the ache of a mind moving between official history and private hunger, not as a fixed lesson about Korea, Republic of. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Borderland Roads Selected Poems Of H Kyun belongs in the translated poetry library because it opens an older Korean literary voice without making the past feel sealed away.
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- White Pine Press (NY)
- Language
- Korean
- Country
- Korea, Republic of
- ISBN
- 9781935210085