Enough to Say It's Far: Selected Poems of Pak Chaesam

Chaesam Pak

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Enough to Say It's Far

Selected Poems of Pak Chaesam

Chaesam Pak
Translated by: David R. McCann and Jiwon Shin

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2006

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Volume 56 | The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation

About this book

This is the first English translation of selected poems by one of the most important and unusual modern poets of South Korea. In contrast to the strident political protests found in the poetry of many of his contemporaries, Pak Chaesam's work is characterized by intimate portraits of place, nature, childhood, and human relationships, and by indirection, nostalgia, and reflectiveness.

Often focused upon the border of this world and some other, Pak writes with a spareness of presentation but a cornucopia of imagery, meticulously exploring objective and subjective realms of existence and memory. Encouraging the reader to see and listen, and to allow the sensory to reshape the analytical, Pak's poetry opens up new realms of experience. A fellow Korean poet described Pak's poetry as being "the most exquisite expression of the Korean sense of han," or melancholy.

Author / Editor information

Pak Chaesam (1933-1997) wrote fifteen books of poetry and numerous books of essays, and he won many of South Korea's most prestigious literary prizes. David R. McCann is Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature at Harvard University. Jiwon Shin is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley.

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"McCann and Shin have executed what seem to me a perfect set of translations. The work is all of a piece, and all very fine."—Richard Howard, series editor of the Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, and author of Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003

"This translation of selected poems by one of South Korea's most respected lyric poets illuminates his work for the first time in English. These poems do not neglect to remind the reader of irrecoverable time, but insist on the mind's ability to bear the richness of what has been lost, captured in Pak's image of the persimmon, the deep orange fruit arriving late in the year. The poems have been rendered in an evocative English afterlife by the translators. Their decisions, particularly regarding words difficult to translate, prove to be astute and effective. It is a welcome work that fills a large gap in Korean poetry in English."—Ann Y. Choi, Rutgers University

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Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	xiii
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Han Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	5
Sound of the Taffy Seller’s Shears Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	7
Landscape Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
Thousand-Year Wind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
From the Song of a Celebrated Singer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	13
A Path of a Heavenly Maiden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	15
Autumn River in Burning Tears Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
Some Day, Some Month Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
As Summer Goes and Autumn Comes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
Landscape Painter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
Enough to Say It’s Far Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
In the Wind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	27
Waking Alone at Dawn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	29
Spring’s Pathway Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
News from Home Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
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Untitled Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	37
Night at Tonghak Temple Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	39
Seeing the Ferry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	41
My First Love Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
In an Empty Courtyard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
Nothing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
Seeing the Fresh Green Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	49
The Feeling of the Gingko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	51
Recollection 13 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	53
Spring Path Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
The Road Back Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	57
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Looking at Winter Trees Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	61
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By the Night Sea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
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Friend, You Have Gone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	71
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At the River Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
Recollection 18 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	77
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I Know the Heart of the Wildgoose Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
Without Title Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
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Tree Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	87
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Song of Death Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	93
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Flowers May Bloom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
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2. With One Head Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	101
3. Place Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
4. A Song Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
Baby’s Foot on My Brow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	107
Asking Not Understanding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	109
What You Sent Me Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	111
P’iri Hole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	113
Days and Months Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
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Before the Wind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
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Small Song Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
Stars Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	129
By the Mountain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	131
As for Love Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	133
After an Illness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
Going to the Mountain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	137
Place Where I Look at Islands Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
Recollection 16 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	141
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