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 cellmate Kim Dae-Jung became president of South Korea in 1998, Ko Un became the first citizen from the South to be invited to tour the North. From that visit came this deceptively simple and deeply engaging book. Ko Un is Korea's most...
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In Abiding Places, Korean poet Ko Un has transfigured his homeland in lovely, observant, and penetrating poems uniting ancient and modern, secular and spiritual, art and politics, South and North. When his former political cellmate Kim Dae-Jung became President of Korea in 1998, Ko Un became the first citizen from the South to be invited to tour the North. From that visit came this deceptively simple and deeply engaging book.Sunny Jung and Hillel Schwartz provide lyrical and penetrating translations, and complement the poems with essential maps.
Introduction iiiKorea: Map xKorea: Chronology xiPoemsPrologue: Evening 1Midday, Port Kampo 2The Pine Trees at Chinp'a 3Graven Buddhas at Seosan, Southern Ch'ungch'eong 5The Venerable Kim Si-seup 7Piro Summit, Keumgang / Diamond Mountain 9Seosura 10Seosura, Again 12Ch'ilbo Mountain 14Sangpyeong Pond 16Yalu River 18Komo Ridge 20A Word about Ancient Ulleung Island 21The Address: 101 Hyeonjeo-dong, Seoul 22Around Unmun Temple at Ch'eongdo 23Blank 24Ghost Song 26Kuwol/ Nine Moons Mountain 27The News of Flowers 28Kama Ridge: Palanquin 29Under Taech'ung Summit 31Keumgang-gul / Diamond Cave 32Pukch'eong Lion Dance 33The Tablet of Pubyeongnu Pavilion, Pyongyang 35Seokguram Grotto, T'oham Mountain 37Kaema High Desert 38Women Picking Apple Blossoms 39Hyesan / Many Blessings Mountain 42Snow Falling 44Waterwell Village at Pukch'eong 45Near Chueul Hot Spring 46That Hermitage 48Field 49Ch'eonji / Heavens Lake, Paekdu Mountain 50Again, Ch'eonji 50White Clothes 51Supung Lake 53Paeng-nyeong Island 55Orphans 56Passing through Suan, P'yeongwon Highway, Northern Hwanghae 58Naejang Mountain 59Ose Hermitage, Inner Passage, Mt. Seorak 60Hangul / The Alphabet 61Chabi / Mercy Crest 65Samsu / Three Waters 67The Grave of the Sea 68Mara Island 69Women of Chin Island 70Facing the Sunrise over the Eastern Sea 72P'aesu River 73Ch'eonseondae / Heavenly Sage Terrace, Mt. Seorak 75Aoji Mine 76Wonsan, Kalma Peninsula 78Ose Hermitage, Again 79Mr. Lee Gye-jo 81Or-Yuk / The Five-Six Islands 83Nabawi 84Stone Pagoda, Pohyeon Temple 85Way of the Geese 87Hadan 89Eternity Bridge at Hamheung 90In the Mountains: Main Street, Nangnim 91Unju / Cloud-Dwelling Ship-in-Motion Temple 92Hoeryung / Place of Peaceful Gatherings 94Seonjuk / Bridge of Virtuous Bamboo 95Potato Flower 97The Nails of Kim Ok-gyun, Revolutionary 98Truce Line, East Coast 99Mireuk / Maitreya Island Offshore of T'ongyeong 100Nokdong Estuary 102Grave of Hwang Chin-i 103T'omal / Land's End District, Haenam 104Kulp'o Village 105Wihwa Island 106Moak Mountain 108Namsan / South Mountain, Kyeongju 109Nuch'en Hermitage 111Pyongyang 114Seonyu Island 115Kwanghwa / Gate of Enlightenment 117A Day of Two Rocks 119Choch'iwon, Southern Ch'ungch'eong 120Tangun's Tomb 121Crimson Leaves 123Frozen Potato Noodles 125Kwangju 127Hongnyu / Red Maple Village 128An Unfinished Poem 129Paekdu / Silver-Haired Mountain 132Truce Line 133Postscript 134Notes 137
