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Introduction iii
Korea: Map x
Korea: Chronology xi
Poems
Prologue: Evening 1
Midday, Port Kampo 2
The Pine Trees at Chinp'a 3
Graven Buddhas at Seosan, Southern Ch'ungch'eong 5
The Venerable Kim Si-seup 7
Piro Summit, Keumgang / Diamond Mountain 9
Seosura 10
Seosura, Again 12
Ch'ilbo Mountain 14
Sangpyeong Pond 16
Yalu River 18
Komo Ridge 20
A Word about Ancient Ulleung Island 21
The Address: 101 Hyeonjeo-dong, Seoul 22
Around Unmun Temple at Ch'eongdo 23
Blank 24
Ghost Song 26
Kuwol/ Nine Moons Mountain 27
The News of Flowers 28
Kama Ridge: Palanquin 29
Under Taech'ung Summit 31
Keumgang-gul / Diamond Cave 32
Pukch'eong Lion Dance 33
The Tablet of Pubyeongnu Pavilion, Pyongyang 35
Seokguram Grotto, T'oham Mountain 37
Kaema High Desert 38
Women Picking Apple Blossoms 39
Hyesan / Many Blessings Mountain 42
Snow Falling 44
Waterwell Village at Pukch'eong 45
Near Chueul Hot Spring 46
That Hermitage 48
Field 49
Ch'eonji / Heavens Lake, Paekdu Mountain 50
Again, Ch'eonji 50
White Clothes 51
Supung Lake 53
Paeng-nyeong Island 55
Orphans 56
Passing through Suan, P'yeongwon Highway, Northern Hwanghae 58
Naejang Mountain 59
Ose Hermitage, Inner Passage, Mt. Seorak 60
Hangul / The Alphabet 61
Chabi / Mercy Crest 65
Samsu / Three Waters 67
The Grave of the Sea 68
Mara Island 69
Women of Chin Island 70
Facing the Sunrise over the Eastern Sea 72
P'aesu River 73
Ch'eonseondae / Heavenly Sage Terrace, Mt. Seorak 75
Aoji Mine 76
Wonsan, Kalma Peninsula 78
Ose Hermitage, Again 79
Mr. Lee Gye-jo 81
Or-Yuk / The Five-Six Islands 83
Nabawi 84
Stone Pagoda, Pohyeon Temple 85
Way of the Geese 87
Hadan 89
Eternity Bridge at Hamheung 90
In the Mountains: Main Street, Nangnim 91
Unju / Cloud-Dwelling Ship-in-Motion Temple 92
Hoeryung / Place of Peaceful Gatherings 94
Seonjuk / Bridge of Virtuous Bamboo 95
Potato Flower 97
The Nails of Kim Ok-gyun, Revolutionary 98
Truce Line, East Coast 99
Mireuk / Maitreya Island Offshore of T'ongyeong 100
Nokdong Estuary 102
Grave of Hwang Chin-i 103
T'omal / Land's End District, Haenam 104
Kulp'o Village 105
Wihwa Island 106
Moak Mountain 108
Namsan / South Mountain, Kyeongju 109
Nuch'en Hermitage 111
Pyongyang 114
Seonyu Island 115
Kwanghwa / Gate of Enlightenment 117
A Day of Two Rocks 119
Choch'iwon, Southern Ch'ungch'eong 120
Tangun's Tomb 121
Crimson Leaves 123
Frozen Potato Noodles 125
Kwangju 127
Hongnyu / Red Maple Village 128
An Unfinished Poem 129
Paekdu / Silver-Haired Mountain 132
Truce Line 133
Postscript 134
Notes 137
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Bill Welsh
reviewed Abiding Places, Korea North and South on April 16, 2015
Abiding Places, Korea North and South
Ko Un is a contemporary Korean writer, critic, activist and poet. He once was a Son Buddhist monk (What the Japanese call Zen originates in Chinese Chan and Korean Son Buddhism). He was jailed as a political prisoner during the regimes of Park Chung Hee and Chun Doo Hwan. He's traveled extensively and his works have been widely translated. He's Korea's greatest living poet and certainly one of the greatest poets in the world. Here's a sample:
If you go back before you were a man,
that's where your home is.
No, not even there, go back further.
Just try yelling without yearning
in the simple voice of an animal
what the beast returns to,
the pure land,* that's home.
* pure land is a Mahayana Buddhist reference to a place of beauty or possibly Enlightenment
But, Ko Un is also Daoist in his "After a Hangover"
Cherry blossoms burst
profusely.
Is regret
only human?
I can't even be a pal to Cherry Blossoms.
Is regret farther from Phony
than remorse?
ps if you think i'm giving too many "5's" just be aware that I won't review a book that I rate less than a 4 or a 5 ... okay, I might do a couple threes. But, why bother with the lesser books when there are so many great ones out there.
pps ... one more poem:
"The Three Way Tavern"
Wake up
understanding is a joy.
There can be no sadness,
said the rainy road
when I looked out after three drinks
at the three way tavern
Soooo, Korean, so Son (Zen), so Daoist and pretty much genius.
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Add Abiding Places, Korea North and South, Poetry. Translated from the Korean. In ABIDING PLACES, Korean poet Ko Un transfigures his homeland in lovely, observant, and penetrating poems uniting ancient and modern, secular and spiritual, art and politics, North and South. When his former political , Abiding Places, Korea North and South to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Abiding Places, Korea North and South, Poetry. Translated from the Korean. In ABIDING PLACES, Korean poet Ko Un transfigures his homeland in lovely, observant, and penetrating poems uniting ancient and modern, secular and spiritual, art and politics, North and South. When his former political , Abiding Places, Korea North and South to your collection on WonderClub |
