Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture, vol. 1 (2007)



 

Contents

David R. McCann

Editor’s Note, 7


Writer in Focus : Kim Young-ha



Kim Young-ha

This Tree of Yours, 9


Dafna Zur

Interview with Kim Young-ha 27


Kim Young-ha

Their Last Visitor, 31

My Brother’s Back, 37


Fiction


Sung Suk-je

First Love, 61


Yoon Sung-Hee

To Bury a Treasure Map at the U-turn, 81


Yun Dae Nyeong

The Silver Trout Fishing Network, 113


Kim Jung-Hyuk

Inuk the Inventor, 137


Ha Seong-nan

Blooms of Mold, 171


Park Min-gyu

Raccoon World, 193


Kim Aeran

Run, Dad!, 227


Lee Hye-kyung

Between Us and the Rest, 257


Feature : Another Perspective


Hwang Sunwŏn

Cranes, 305


David R. McCann

On Hwang Sunwŏn’s “Cranes,” 313


Lee Chang-dong

The Dreaming Beast, 317


Heinz Insu Fenkl

On the Narratography of Lee Chang-dong: A Long Translator’s Note, 339


Poetry


Kim Hyesoon

Boiling, Two Pages of Tongue, Spring Rain, A Hundred-Year-Old Fox, Water Spider’s House, 97


Hwang Jiwoo

Contour Lines of the Rain 1,

The Greeting 2, A Flash,

My Lotus Pond, My Sanatorium,

Stone Buddha Leaning Against a Wall in the Subway, 105


Huh Su-gyung

Evening Soaks Us and, That Time,

Yŏngbyŏn, Leaves of Reed, Sound of Trees Swaying,

Thus Laughing Days Continued, 159


Lee Si-Young

A Dried Fish, Parallel, Distance,

Risky Abode, Evening Hours, 167


Kim Seung-Hui

A Parcel of Eggs, Santa Cello, Blue 5 Amazing Grace,

The Rainbow’s Promise, Pots Banging, 215


Lee Moon-jae

Between Heaven and Earth, Joke,

Heart, Poet and Farmer, 223


Hwang In-sook

I Wish to Be Born as a Cat, Pink Bird,

Drowsiness, Regret, The Birds Set the Sky Free, 277


Kim Chiha

There Will Be No Return, Fig, At Haech’ang,

Fifty Simultaneous Pecking from Inside and Out, 283


Ko Un

Ŏnnyŏn in Siberia, Hallelujah,

Yi Jŏng-yi’s Family, DDT, Kwŏn Jin-gyu, 295


Chonggi Mah

The Fall of Paterson, Calling Names,

Alaska Psalm 1, 4, and 5, 357


Song Ch’an-ho

An old tale taken from a trunk, Camellia,

Camellia opening wide, Orchard with a hedge of bitter orange trees,

Camellias falling, 365


Book Review


Ronald Suleski

The Guest by Hwang Sok-yong, 289


Interview


Mickey Hong

Peter H. Lee: Fifty Years with Korean Literature in America, 371


Korea from the Outside


Orhan Pamuk

First Impressions, 391


Robert Pinsky

Peace, Poetry, and Negation, 395


Images Index, 406

Notes on Contributors, 408