I Must Be the Wind

"'Dazzling strokes of falling stars in falling water. I want to write poems like that, ' writes Moon Chung-hee. Thanks to Silberg and You, these poems dazzle bright in English. Here love is violent and 'suffered, an encysted stone . . . wedged' in the heart, and defiance trembles the soul: 'Dress up for men, you say? / Nonsense / I stripped / for them . . . the world's women / root on earth, naked.' Chung-hee casts off 'the watch and mink stole, ' and exclaims: 'I want to be a free dancer from now on.'"--Sholeh Wolpé

Moon Chung-hee's poetry is passionate, impetuous, a poetry of love, epiphany, feminist assertion, even rebellion.

Richard Silberg co-translated, with Clare You, The Three Way Tavern and This Side of Time, by Ko Un. He is author of The Horses: New and Selected Poems.

Clare You is the Chair of the Center for Korean Studies at USC Berkeley, and has co-translated modern Korean poetry and fiction into English.

Author: Moon Chung-Hee
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
Published: 12/02/2014
Series: Korean Voices #19
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781935210603