Heart's Agony: Selected Poems of Chiha Kim (Human Rights Series)

"In the back alley at daybreak I write you name, O democracy"-Chiha Kim CONTENTS......Page 7 PREFACE......Page 11 Introduction / Cosmic Buds Burgeoning In Words: Chiha Kim's Poetics Of Full-Emptiness - Chan J. Wu......Page 17 THE FIRST PART......Page 37 THE OCHER ROAD......Page 39 AT THE FIELD......Page 41 BLUE CLOTHES......Page 43 I CAN'T SEE EVEN STARLIGHT......Page 44 WITH A BURNING THIRST......Page 45 SOOYU-RI DIARY......Page 46 IN THE DARKNESS......Page 47 NIGHT COUNTRY......Page 48 BROOK 2......Page 49 A BIRD......Page 51 NEVER WILL YOU RETURN......Page 52 CHIRI MOUNTAIN......Page 54 HELL 2......Page 56 THE EMPTY MOUNTAIN......Page 57 THE RAIN......Page 58 SHORT CUTS......Page 60 SOMETHING So OBVIOUS......Page 61 LIFE......Page 62 POETRY......Page 63 A LETTER......Page 64 LET's SEE SMALL THINGS......Page 65 AN ARMFUL OF FLOWERS FOR THE RUSTED LOCOMOTIVE......Page 66 THE FIGURE OF A HORSEMAN......Page 68 A WISH 1......Page 69 A WISH 2......Page 70 A WISH 3......Page 71 THE SEA......Page 72 THE SECOND PART......Page 75 CRACKING THE SHELL......Page 77 WHATEVER......Page 78 IN THE PAST......Page 79 HEART'S AGONY......Page 80 NEW SPRING 3......Page 81 NEW SPRING 4......Page 82 NEW SPRING 6......Page 83 NEW SPRING 8......Page 84 THE GAPS......Page 85 RESPECT......Page 86 FLOWER-ENVYING COLD 1......Page 87 ILSAN POEMS 2......Page 88 lLSAN POEM 4......Page 89 lLSAN POEMS 5......Page 90 INNER FLESH I......Page 91 INNER FLESH 3......Page 92 NOTHING......Page 93 LONELINESS......Page 94 A MEMORY......Page 95 EMPTY ROOM......Page 96 MY HOME......Page 97 THE SOUND OF RAIN......Page 98 CRICKET......Page 99 AUTUMN TWILIGHT......Page 100 A NEW CHURCH......Page 101 To THE WEST?......Page 102 THE THIRD PART......Page 103 FIVE THIEVES......Page 105 NOTES ON THE POEMS......Page 128 THE TRANSLATORS......Page 130 Born in South Korea in 1941, Chiha Kim was first imprisoned in 1964 and sentenced to death in 1974. His crime: writing poetry that provoked the military government of Chunghee Park. Worldwide efforts to save him were begun in Japan, where his work had first been published. His sentence was commuted in 1980 following the assassination of Park and the downfall of his regime, a demise Kim had predicted. A legendary figure is South Korea, Chiha Kim won the Lotus Prize, generally regarded as the Third World's Nobel Prize, while imprisoned in 1975. Heart's Agony gathers poetry from all phases of his career, including poems that led to his imprisonment and torture and those written from prison. Author of eight volumes of poetry, Chiha Kim was nominated for the Nobel Prize in both Peace and Literature in 1975 Chiha Kim ; Translated By Won-chung Kim And James Han. Translated From Various Titles In Korean.