The Three Way Tavern - Selected Poems

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-520-24613-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 212 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Ko Un, the preeminent Korean poet of the twentieth century, embraces Buddhism with the versatility of a master Taoist sage. A beloved cultural figure who has helped shape contemporary Korean literature, Ko Un is also a novelist, literary critic, ex-monk, former dissident, and four-time political prisoner. His verse—vivid, unsettling, down-to-earth, and deeply moving—ranges from the short lyric to the vast epic and draws from a poetic reservoir filled with memories and experiences ranging over seventy years of South Korea's tumultuous history from the Japanese occupation to the Korean war to democracy. This collection, an essential sampling of his poems from the last decade of the twentieth century, offers in deft translation, as lively and demotic as the original, the off-beat humor, mystery, and mythic power of his work for a wide audience of English-speaking readers. It showcases the work of a man whom Allen Ginsberg has called "a magnificent poet, a combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian," who Gary Snyder has said is "a real-world poet!" who "outfoxes the Old Masters and the young poets both," and who Lawrence Ferlinghetti has described as "no doubt the greatest living Korean Zen poet today."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Un, Ko

Weitere Mitwirkende

You, Clare

Silberg, Richard

Snyder, Gary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Foreword Gary Snyder

Introduction Clare You

FROM Song of Tomorrow (1992)
Today

Song of That Day

Front of a Tree

The Woman of Kageo Island

Arirang

Grand Dame Choi Kumja

Strange Land

Cold Mountain

First

Memorial Night

Song of Innocence

Kangaroo

A Boat

My Resume

The Cow Is Laughing

You and I

A Slice of Old Moon

Sosan Granny

Confucius, One Day

FROM The Road Ahead (1993)
Majung Village

Ignorant Man
Empty Field

Memories

My Spring

After Stacking the Chopped Pines

The Poem in Last Night’s Dream

In the Woods

Mother’s Dew

Chirping of a Cricket

A Cup of Green Tea

Grandfather’s Advice

The Road Ahead

FROM A Cenotaph (1997)
My Poems

Forgetting

Going Over Ssari Hill

By the Window
Sumano Pagoda

Fallacy

The Poet
Poems of the Peninsula

Hometown

Once there was a teacher more than eighty years old

A Cenotaph

Anapurna

Lullaby

The Voice of Baekdam Monastery

Alone One Day

About the Time Crepe Myrtles Bloomed

Lion

Self-Portrait

Spring News

Sadness

The Winter Sky

Breeze

Salmon

Back Home

Passing through a Mountain Village

The Croaking of Frogs

At Buan Gomso

After a Hangover

But

Empty Hands

FROM Ten Thousand Lives (1986 – )
Traveler

January Full Moon

Morning Rooster

Women of Sunjeri

The Street Kids

Byong’ogi

Mansooni, Comfort Woman

Letters

Aunt

Uncle Jaemoon

A Good Day

Planting Rice

Mountain Well

Mitsukoshi Department Store

Lark

Kasame Salt Flats

Sudong’s Swallows

Ch’ilyong’i

Chungdu’s Mother

Ttaoggi

Tavern Justice

Three-Headed Eagle

YH Kim Kyungsook

FROM Ko Un’s Son Poems: What? (1991)
Echo

Owl

Baby

Coming Down the Mountain

Bushman

Looking Back

Drunkard

Friend

The Three Way Tavern

Late Summer

Tsetse Fly

Moon

Green Frog

Held in Your Arms

Cuckoo

Way

Winds

Cheju’s Reed Field

Mosquito

House

Summer

From A Cenotaph:Cheju Island

FROM The Whisper (1998)
Afterlife

Suddenly

Stars and Flowers

Unlike Laozi

You

Confession

Peace

A Certain Song

Meeting Myself

Barley Field

Mustard Flowers in April

Early Spring

Searching for the Cow

Coda: The Thuja Fence

Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Ko Un is author of Beyond Self: 108 Korean Zen Poems and The Sound of My Waves: Selected Poems of Ko Un as well as more than 100 volumes of poetry, short stories, fiction, criticism, essays, and children's literature, many of which have been best-sellers. His many awards include the Korean Literary Writers Award, Manhae Literary Award, and the Daesan Literary Award. Ko Un was Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University. Clare You, Chair, Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley, has received the Korean National Silver Medal of Culture, and is author of two language textbooks including College Korean. Richard Silberg, associate editor of Poetry Flash, is author of five books of poetry and the book of essays Reading the Sphere. You and Silberg have also co-translated the poems of Oh Sae-Young.