Echoing Song

Contemporary Korean Women Poets

By: Peter H. Lee (Editor)

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Echoing Song presents the work of 20 contemporary Korean women poets active from the 1970s to the present. Each poet is represented with 10 to 15 poems reflecting the range of their poetic development. This anthology demonstrates the originality and variety of modern Korean women’s poetry.

The poets include Yi Hyangji, No Hyangnim, Ch’on Yanghui, Kang Ungyo, Mun Chonghui, Yi Kyongnim, Ko Chonghui, Ch’oe Sungja, Kim Sunghui, Kim Chongnam, Yi Chinmyong, Kim Hyesun, No Hyegyong, Hwang Insuk, Chong Hwajin, Yi Yonju, Yi Sanghui, Pak Sowon, Ho Sugyong and Na Huidok.

Peter Lee is a professor of Korean studies at ULCA and has translated over 20 books.

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Preface	p. 13
Introduction	p. 15
Sunrise	p. 30
Leaf Struck by Bird Droppings	p. 31
What Did You Do Yesterday?	p. 32
The March of Dawn	p. 34
Achromatic Dawn	p. 35
Reply at an Unknown Place	p. 36
Ringing in My Ears	p. 38
The Phoenix	p. 39
Leaving Home	p. 40
The Joy of Love	p. 41
Song of a Balloon in Search of Her Mom's Balloon	p. 42
The Sea	p. 43
Dream	p. 45
Windy Day	p. 46
Black Hole	p. 47
Autumn Letter	p. 48
Rooftop Violin	p. 49
A Country Where Snow Has Not Yet Fallen	p. 50
Nature	p. 51
Nursery	p. 52
Yard	p. 53
Ap'ae Island I-Diving Woman	p. 54
Ap'ae Island 45-Once Upon a Time	p. 55
Entering Chikso Fall	p. 57
Millet Field in my Mind	p. 58
One Day	p. 59
Thoughts on a Bird	p. 60
Mountain Stroll	p. 61
At Moments Like This, I Always Blush	p. 63
Crescent Moon	p. 64
Every Morning in the Mirror	p. 65
To Single Women	p. 66
Black Cove	p. 67
Rotation I	p. 69
Leaves of Grass	p. 70
Becoming Water	p. 71
Woods	p. 72
In the Fog	p. 73
Sleet	p. 74
Rise, Grass	p. 75
Spider	p. 76
Twilight Song	p. 77
Woman Hanging Laundry	p. 78
The Storm	p. 80
The Stare	p. 81
A Little Kitchen Song	p. 82
Seeing the Snow	p. 83
The Letter	p. 84
To My Son	p. 85
Song of a Middle-Aged Woman	p. 86
A Single Blossom	p. 87
For the Sake of Man	p. 87
For the Sake of Man Again	p. 88
An Elderly Woman	p. 90
To You, My Beloved Ssuma Ch'ien	p. 91
At the Grave	p. 93
Anam Street 1	p. 94
Anam Street 2	p. 95
Korean Women	p. 96
Oh, Life	p. 97
Chirping	p. 98
Song	p. 99
Certain Sickness, Deep Love	p. 100
Time 5	p. 101
Our Baby Is a Living Prayer	p. 103
Prague Spring 6	p. 105
Prague Spring 8	p. 106
Let's Open the Dam	p. 107
A Study of Women's History 4	p. 108
A Study of Women's History 6	p. 109
The People of the Earth 8	p. 110
What Is History? I	p. 111
On the Way to Ch'ongju	p. 113
Sisters, Now We Are the Path and the Light	p. 114
It Will Be a New World	p. 116
A Letter Written with the Left Hand	p. 117
My Phone Rings Endlessly	p. 119
About Women	p. 121
For the Second Time in Thirty-Three Years	p. 122
House of Memories	p. 123
From Early on I Was	p. 125
While Watching Sunset	p. 126
Instead of a Dream	p. 127
Night Owl	p. 128
Portrait of the Marginalized	p. 129
Untitled 2	p. 130
Do You Remember Chongp'a Street?	p. 133
A Voice	p. 134
Life Within an Egg	p. 136
Female Buddha	p. 140
Floating Metonymy 2	p. 142
Love Song for the Belly Button I	p. 144
Floating Metonymy 5	p. 145
Growing Pearl I	p. 147
Institutions	p. 149
Soaring	p. 150
Wailer	p. 152
Mother's Feet	p. 154
Between Saint and Witch	p. 156
Na Hyesok's Complex	p. 158
The Sea at Twenty-Four	p. 162
In the Subway-Getting Used to Ugliness 3	p. 163
The Woman I Carelessly Killed	p. 164
Veronica, a Double Life	p. 165
Poetry	p. 166
A Phone Call from Immortality	p. 167
Between May and June	p. 168
A Leafy Plant of Wisdom	p. 170
Rain	p. 171
Women's Words	p. 172
Women's Language	p. 173
Images	p. 174
Record of a Certain Summer	p. 176
Woman Mopping With a Rag Mop	p. 178
Pure Talk	p. 180
The Bear	p. 181
Snow	p. 182
Memories of the Day I Gave Birth to a Daughter	p. 184
Not Knowing He's Dead	p. 186
Daybreak in Seoul	p. 187
National Museum Hallway	p. 189
Taklamakan	p. 191
Inside the Iris	p. 192
Women	p. 193
A Very Old Hotel	p. 195
Mice	p. 196
A Teardrop	p. 197
Driving During a Shower	p. 198
A Bloody Clock	p. 199
Peace on Earth	p. 202
Song of Mary	p. 203
Triangle, Mirror	p. 205
Triangle, Comb	p. 206
Memory of Underdevelopment	p. 207
Miscellaneous Bouquet	p. 208
Disease That Arrives at Death	p. 209
Happy Walk	p. 210
Face	p. 211
Wedding	p. 212
Children on Top of the Hill	p. 213
Fish and Sauce	p. 215
Dance of Death	p. 216
Under Her Rib	p. 217
All Dreams Are Sexual	p. 218
When He Said, "Soul"	p. 219
A New Year's Card	p. 220
I'm Surplus	p. 221
Sorrow Wakes Me	p. 222
Two Doors	p. 223
Huge Mouth	p. 224
A Walk	p. 225
Dance	p. 227
A Knife Gets Bigger	p. 228
The South Yard	p. 230
The Hidden Path	p. 231
A Bowl of Mul Kimch'i	p. 232
The Sewing Box	p. 233
I'm a Dragonfly Caught in a Net	p. 234
Sunlight Showers Down in Sheets	p. 235
Suddenly, the Yard Where Rice and Yeast Brew	p. 236
Monsoon Season Opens Children's Eyes	p. 237
The Water in a Gourd	p. 238
A Clinic in a Dangerous Season 1	p. 240
A Clinic in a Dangerous Season 7	p. 241
A Clinic in a Dangerous Season 8	p. 242
Our Old Home	p. 243
An Open-Eyed Blind Man	p. 244
For the Sake of Two Screws	p. 245
Grandmother's Sea	p. 246
Taking a Watermelon as a Paradigm	p. 247
Holiday Inside an Incubator	p. 248
The Bread and I	p. 249
Dracula	p. 251
Van Gogh	p. 252
Dickinson's Blue Sleeve	p. 253
As My Will...	p. 254
Dance	p. 255
Organizing a Drawer	p. 256
For Men to Tell How Human Life Began...	p. 257
A Morning Stroll	p. 258
I Ask in the Late Evening	p. 259
Farewell, My Youth	p. 260
Night, Work	p. 260
Igloo! Igloo!	p. 261
Obsession	p. 263
Menstrual Irregularities	p. 264
A Recurring Nightmare: My Amputation	p. 265
A Small Wooden Vessel	p. 266
The Midnight Caller	p. 267
To the Man Holding a Sickle	p. 268
The Wind God Sends Forth	p. 269
Lies	p. 270
Plantain	p. 271
The Highway	p. 272
Love in an Empty Lot	p. 274
Sober, Remaining	p. 275
A Weeping Singer	p. 276
One White Dream	p. 277
The One at Rest	p. 278
When I Think About the Past	p. 279
Poem	p. 280
No Return	p. 281
The Butterfly	p. 282
Train Leaving	p. 282
For Five Minutes	p. 284
That Place Isn't Far	p. 285
Dirty Nylons	p. 286
Women Within Me	p. 287
Like the Vineyard	p. 288
Song of Grass	p. 289
A Cold Rain Comes	p. 290
Sleeping on the Nail	p. 291
There Is Such an Evening	p. 292
Five A.M.	p. 293
Biographical Notes	p. 295
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