Book record
Songs for Tomorrow
Ko Un
Translated from Korean by Brother Anthony of Taizé, Young-Moo Kim, Gary G. Gach
Songs for Tomorrow, by Ko Un and translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé, Young-Moo Kim, Gary G. Gach from Korean, brings Korean-language poetry connected to Korea, Republic of into English through Ko Un's Korean tomorrow, political hope, and the song impulse that keeps speaking toward what has not arrived. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is the pressure of a voice that has already changed the weather around it. I would read it for tomorrow, song, history, and the restless desire to keep the future addressable, 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. Songs for Tomorrow belongs in the translated poetry library because it offers Korean poetry as witness, momentum, and a public lyric of endurance.
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Green Integer
- Language
- Korean
- Country
- Korea, Republic of
- ISBN
- 9781933382708