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Author: Hyon-Jong Chong ,
Wolhee Choe ,
Peter Fusco
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Imprint: Cornell University East Asia Program
Volume: 94
Dimensions:
Width: 14.60cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.20cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781885445544
ISBN 10: 1885445547
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 31 March 2010
Recommended Age: From 18 years
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
This volume introduced to me a remarkable voice from a Korea I hardly know... The imagery is haunting... and precise... Thanks to these sensual translations, we meet a 'mind uncircumscribed.' -- David Shapiro Offers superb translation of a poet whose originality in his use of language makes a completely successful rendition impossible. The effort here, however, is both supreme and commendable. * World Literature Today * Succeeds admirably in communicating the particular imaginative sensibility... that makes verbal utterances poems. I wish this volume many readers. * Pacific Affairs *
Succeeds admirably in communicating the particular imaginative sensibility... that makes verbal utterances poems. I wish this volume many readers. * Pacific Affairs * Offers superb translation of a poet whose originality in his use of language makes a completely successful rendition impossible. The effort here, however, is both supreme and commendable. * World Literature Today * This volume introduced to me a remarkable voice from a Korea I hardly know... The imagery is haunting... and precise... Thanks to these sensual translations, we meet a 'mind uncircumscribed.' -- David Shapiro
Offers superb translation of a poet whose originality in his use of language makes a completely successful rendition impossible. The effort here, however, is both supreme and commendable. * World Literature Today * Succeeds admirably in communicating the particular imaginative sensibility... that makes verbal utterances poems. I wish this volume many readers. * Pacific Affairs * This volume introduced to me a remarkable voice from a Korea I hardly know... The imagery is haunting... and precise... Thanks to these sensual translations, we meet a 'mind uncircumscribed' -- David Shapiro
Succeeds admirably in communicating the particular imaginative sensibility... that makes verbal utterances poems. I wish this volume many readers. * Pacific Affairs * This volume introduced to me a remarkable voice from a Korea I hardly know... The imagery is haunting... and precise... Thanks to these sensual translations, we meet a 'mind uncircumscribed.' -- David Shapiro Offers superb translation of a poet whose originality in his use of language makes a completely successful rendition impossible. The effort here, however, is both supreme and commendable. * World Literature Today *
Author Information
Wolhee Choe, Professor of English at Polytechnic University, is the author or translator of other books on poetry, painting, and poetics. Peter Fusco, poet, translator, and teacher of classical literature, died in Spring 1996.
