Even Birds Leave the World - Selected Poems of Ji-Woo Hwang

About the author

Ji-Woo Hwang was born in 1952 and studied aesthetics and philosophy at college in the early 70's. He began to publish poems in 1980 and has since written seven books of poetry. For his work, Hwang has received many of Korea's most prestigious literary awards. Won-Chung Kim is a professor of English Literature at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, Korea. He is the co-translator of Heart's Agony by Chiha Kim and is currently translatiing an anthology of Korean nature poets. Christopher Merrill has published four collection of poetry, including Watch Fire and is the author of several books of non-fiction inclusing the recent, Things of a Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain. He has translated work from several languages and his works include Anxious Moments by Ales Debeljak. He directs the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Summary

A Selected Poems by one of contemporary Korea's major voices

Product details

• Authors: Ji-Woo Hwang
• Assisted by: Won-Chun Kim (Translation), Won-Chung Kim (Translation), Christopher Merrill (Translation)
• Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2006
• EAN: 9781893996458
• ISBN: 978-1-893996-45-8
• No. of pages: 102
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 228 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 168 g
• Series: Korean Voices; Korean Voices
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies