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Moon Chung-hee’s poetry is passionate, impetuous, a poetry of love, of epiphany, of feminist assertion, even rebellion.
List of contents
Contents
I
Naked Trees
Wine
First Snow
A Chestnut Story
Asking Directions
Willow Flowers
Fountainhead
A Favor
Autumn Wound
II
A Notebook
Storm
Husband
Comfortable Person
Raising a Star
A Woman Changing a Tire
Men Reconsidered
I Wish I Had a Wife
Airport Letter
III
Suknam Flower
The Boy
I Wash Windows
Solitude
I Want to Become a Donkey
Unh hunh
IV
Poems to a Tree
I Must Be a Bad Poet
Morning Letter
Free Dancer
Dying Alone
The Net
Reasons to Love
V
Viola: It May Rain
To a Young Love
The Winter Wind
Song of Hwang Jini
A Dawn Cry from Mexico
Success
VI
Train South
Memories
A Package
Weekend
Where Is My Home
Rainbows in Seoul
Lucky Lecture
VII
Love Is No Fire
Airport at Dawn
A Day in the Sahara
Suddenly
First Meeting
-A Love Song for Rilke
Poet’s House
VIII
For Men
Fall Ghosts
Living With a Poet
Breasts
Cold Rice
Autumn
Song of a Balloon
IX
Waiting for You in a Mask
Hot News
A Moth’s Poem
Crazy Promise
Lost
Dawn Birds
A Vagrant’s Diary
Companion Waves
Sea School
Sewing Sea
Sorrow of Lido
Understanding
X
Legacy
Fog
The Things I’ve Done
Snow Mountain
About the author
Richard Silberg: Richard Silberg is the associate editor of Poetry Flash, is author of five books of poetry including The Fields, and Doubleness and the book of essays Reading the Sphere.
Claire You: Clare You, is the Chair of the Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and received the Korean National Silver Medal of Culture in 2003 for her work in the advancement of Korean culture. She is author of two language textbooks including College Korean.
Summary
Moon Chung-hee's poetry is passionate, impetuous, a poetry of love, of epiphany, of feminist assertion, even rebellion.
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