Grasshoppers' Eyes

Ko Hyeong-Ryeol, Lee Hyung-Jin

Description

The poems of Ko Hyeong-Ryeol are mostly inspired by the landscapes and cityscapes of Korea, occasionally echoing journeys to other lands. The poet allows his memories and imagination free reign so that his poems escape from the limits of naturalistic description and invite the reader to sense both the interrelatedness and the impermanence of all things. Many poems are reflections of the Buddhist sense of unreality, the discontinuity of time and matter. Ko Hyeong-ryeol grew up in the shadow of Mount Seorak, a wild, rocky mountain in the East of Korea, and many poems return to it. These translations make his work available in English for the first time.

Informations

• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 15 avril 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602359437
• Langue: English

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Grasshoppers’ Eyes

Grasshoppers’ Eyes

Poems

Ko Hyeong-Ryeol

Translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé and Lee Hyung-Jin

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Contents

Acknowedgments vîî Crîtîca ïntroductîon îx

Earlier Poems 3

Zuangzî 5 Twîîgt 7 he Watermeon Patc at te Top o Daeceong Peak 8 he Seasore at Daybreak 10 Garbage Dump Fîre 11 Poets Wo Never Despaîr 12 Nîgta în ïndonesîa 13 Poem about Water’s Experîences 14 Heavy Snow în Sajîn-rî 15 Watera 17 Frost Fower Budda 18 A Carpenter Bee în a Pumpkîn Fower 19 Sweet hougts 20 My Dîonysîuses 21 A etter Sent to Nae-Rîn Stream 22 Cranes 23 eaves în te Wînd 24 Sprîng 25 Appe Pîp 26 Human Fower 27 Noîse 28 A Bînd Man 29 Bowîng 30 Wîe and Cîd 31 he Pace Were a Fower Once Bossomed 32 A Fower Not Boomîng 33

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Poems from 2001 and Beyond 35

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Unabe to Go to Mt. Woyu 37 Sînus Evenîng 39 Sorrow or Wat ïs Not 40 Song o a Sad Source 41 An Arrow 42 Pane Trees în te Zoo 43 Ceestîa Jewe-Wrîtîng 44 So Many Stones Foatîng în te Sky 45 Fres Poock Noode Soup 46 Were Grassoppers Dîed 47 Moter’s Mîk 49 Downstream Poem 50 ookîng în troug a Front Door 51 Poem on a îne 52 Aprî 53 Grassopper’s Eyes 54 One Frozen Tear 55 A Seep o Wîte Sand 56 My Fîrst îgt 57 Run, Tîger! 58 Poock, and Ony hîs Poem Was et 59 Mîsîryreong by Nîgt 60 On Openîng a Vertîca Bînd 61 ïnsect 62 Wy, te Fîrst ïce Has Frozen! 63 Twîîgt MagnîIcent as an Aurora 64 he Street hat Kîed Musîc 65 Gazîng 66 A Sma Knîe 67 Grass, Grass, Grass 68 Swan’s Feet 69 A Speedîng Word 70

Poems from 2010 71

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Poem o Mots and Dust 73 Stroîng Eastward 74 Women Standîng on Baconîes 75 Have You Ever Been to a Spîder’s îe? 76 Poem o Green Forsytîa 78 ïn tat Deep Pace, te Secret Department Store 79 Memorîes o a Corn Beard Crîcket 80 Rose wît a Transparent Gass 81 ïn a Dead Spot 82 From Beow te owest eve o You and ï 83 Bankruptcy 84 Sîver Transparent Eectrîc Bapen 85 Poem o One Graîn o Beîjîng Sand 86 ï Stand on My Head 87 Spîderwort’s Prîvate îe 88 Beore Dawn’s udîcrous Despaîr 89 Suddeny ï Am Passîng hroug a Dead Body 90 Toward Bogor Botanîca Garden 91 Pîgets’ Summer on te Hî Beînd 92 Cancer: A Word 93 To a DeInîtey Not-Quîet Poem 94 Roman Mornîng în K Hote 95 0.1 Mîîmeter Caîn-o-ove 96 he Toîet în Ceono Subway Statîon 97 Poet Outsîde te Frame 98 he Tîme o a Sarp Knîe Bade 99 Voîces Turned înto Pottery 100 On a Branc 101 Fower Rîsîng în Tree Rîngs 102 ï Commemorate Devastatîon 103 Skyscraper ove Caîn 104 Crazy About Mîtocondrîa 105

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About te Autor 119 About te Transators 121

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A Came în a Neede’s Eye 106 Pease Grow Od îke te Roots o a Tree 107 Coud You Step Asîde a îtte? 108 ï Am Not în Erdene Zuu Monastery 109 ookîng at te Deep Bue Sky 111 Bue ïce Fîs 112 Back Deat Suddeny Hured înto a abyrînt 113 Jaguar în te Cîty Center One Cear Day 114 Grass and Apartments 115 A Countereît Banknote 116 Summer Devours Wîe 117 My Momentary Toy 118

Acknowledgments

Amost a te poems în tîs coectîon were orîgînay pubîsed by Cangbî Pubîsîng Co. în te oowîng voumes. Te present pubîcatîon o transatîons îs made wît te permîssîon o te poet and pubîsers

성에꽃 눈부처Seongekkot nunbuceo (“Frost Fowers Reected în my Eyes,” 1998)

김포 운호가든집에서Gîmpo Unogadeunjîpeseo (“ïn Uno Gar- den at Gîmpo,” 2001)

나는 에르덴조 사원에 없다Naneun Ereudenjo sawone opda (“ï am not în Erdene Zuu Tempe,” 2010)

아무도 찾아오지 않는 거울이다Amudo cajaojî anneun geourî- da (“ï am a Mîrror Nobody Vîsîts,” 2015)

Te ew poems pubîsed în oter paces are transated and pub- îsed wît te permîssîon o te poet.

Tîs voume îs a greaty expanded and radîcay revîsed versîon o a drat înîtîay prepared by Meen-Heum Park.

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