The Colors of Dawn Edited by Brother Anthony of Taizé and Chung Eun-Gwi Manoa: General Editor Frank Stewart  2016 CONTENTS Introduction by Brother Anthony of Taizé (A short history of 20th century Korean poetry)  xiii PART one: poetry of today Kim Sunwoo (1970– ) 3 Playing Dead Measuring the Height of a Shadow Today’s Meeting This City’s This and That It Was Good That No One Lived There Afternoon with Magnolia Scene with a Total Eclipse of the Moon and a Canna DMZ, Cloud Family in Wonderland History of the Void Brief Sunshine after Snowfall Jin Eun-Young (1970– ) 10 Extinction I Am Day after Day We When You Were a Boy Shim Bo-Seon (1970– ) 13 Fifteen Seconds without Sorrow An Unavoidable Road Things That Lead Me to Disillusionment Hwang Gyu-gwan (1969– ) 17 Jeonju Stream A Spring Day Rain Is Falling Spring’s Depth Park Seo-yeong (1968– ) 20 Weekday Cinema Touching a Stone by the Riverside Touch of Music for the Deaf Barefoot Kafka’s Sleep Kim So-yeon (1967– ) 24 Oh, Bartleby Shadow The Pit Opposites A Blanket’s Insomnia The River and I Song Kyung-dong (1967– ) 29 Magpies Waiting for Redevelopment Lyrics, Too, Have Class Structures Winter That Year at Dotgot Beyond the Border Love Song for Garibong Five-way Crossing Being Shadowed Kim Ju-Tae (1966– ) 35 Daeheung Chemicals Plastic Factory Ra HeeDuk (1966– ) 36 Room with a View of Seopseom I Wasn’t Yet Born A Deer Sacrament on the Road Between “No Sighting” and “Sighting” Banksias Where the Cornfield Used to Be Lee Yeong-gwang (1965– ) 43 Love’s Invention Love’s Slave Faces Kim Sa-in (1956– ) 45 Mokpo Mr. Jeon of the Chinese Restaurant A Snail Bak Yeong-geun The Last Day of the Lunar Year No Shadows Choi Jeong-rye (1955– ) 50 Shall Time’s Best Jewel from Time’s Chest Lie Hid? Mending I Am Not a Noodles Delivery Boy I Did Not Need a Bag Baek Mu-san (1955– ) 53 I Know What I Must Resist But... The Way to Unmun Empty-bodied Guest Do Jong Hwan (1954– ) 56 The Old Church Autumn Rain Autumn Leaves Winter Trees Ko Hyeong-ryeol (1954– ) 59 The Place of Fallen Flowers My Dionysus My Momentary Toy My First Light A Letter Sent to Nae-Rin Stream Twilight Kim Soo-Bok (1953– ) 63 Someone Said Winter Forest The Sea Silence Kim Seung-Hee (1952– ) 66 Hope’s Purgatory One White Flatfish Lying on a White Dish Translucent Opacity Dream of Someone Free Plum Blossom Is Mighty Sisyphus’s Stake An Island Called “In Spite of All” Inside of Hope Is God’s Drop of Water Seoul Melancholy 1 Seoul Melancholy 2 Lee Seong-bok (1952– ) 73 Something Beautiful If Not for the Body, It Wouldn’t Have Existed To Be Alive Right Now Jeong Ho-Seung (1952– ) 75 A Bird Insu Peak Sehando: Winter Landscape The Well Rice Soup A Shooting Star Longing for Buseok-sa Temple I Love You Ants How to Eat Lee Si-Young (1949– ) 79 A Blessing At Sunset The Small House on the Prairie Some Kind of Diligence One Evening Morning Evening Scene At Qinghai On the Qingzang Plateau So Powerful! Guts Kim Nam-Ju (1946–1994) 82 Massacre PART TWO: survivors of war Shin Dal-ja (1943– ) 87 At Dawn The Wind Is Blowing The Moment I Meet You One Touch and I’ll Burst into Flame Kim Kwang-kyu (1941– ) 89 Trickery Roadside Trees in April Kim with Crutch A Kind of Confession Kim Chi-ha (1941– ) 94 Five Bandits Chonggi Mah (1939– ) 105 Reeds’ Blood The Hill inside the Hill Splendor of Water 4 Shin Gyeong-nim (1939– ) 107 In the Dark Friend! In Your Fist... Someone Mountain Station Year-End Fair An Alley Traveling Companions A Chance Encounter We Meet Again Ko Un (1933– ) 114 Ten Poems from Untitled Poems PART three: founding voices Bak Seong-ryong (1934– ) 125 On Top of a Mountain The Fruit Tree At Summer’s End Cheon Sang-byeong (1930–1993) 127 Rivers After Tu Fu Happiness Cheon Bong-gon (1928–1988) 129 Rivers If You Come to a Stony Place Pak In-Hwan (1926–1956) 131 The Black River Kim Jong-gil (1926– ) 132 Mediterranean Observations Lonely Height Suez Canal Kim Chun-su (1922–2004) 134 Prologue for a Flower Ballad Tune VII The Snow Falling on Chagall’s Village Poem on an Autumn Evening Flower Han Ha-Un (1920–1975) 138 Barley Flute Jeolla-do Road to Sorok Island Ku Sang (1919–2004) 140 Substance and Reality Wings Playing by Himself New Year Lord! Once Again Yun Dong-ju (1917–1945) 145 Confession A Poem Easily Written Self-portrait Bak Du-jin (1916–1998) 148 In Praise of the Graveyard Sun In Epistolary Style Bak Mog-weol (1916–1978) 151 The Hippopotamus The Ostrich The Moon Midang Seo Jeong-ju (1915–2001) 153 Barley-time Summer Self-portrait Noontide The Legend of the Tiled-roof House A Kiss Pretty Girl Yi Yong-ak (1914–1971) 157 Jeolla Lass Kim Ki-rim (1908–?) 159 World’s Morning Yu Chi-hwan (1908–1967) 161 Evening Glow On the Frontline Thus Spoke the Himalayas Bat Kim Tong-Hwan (1901–1958) 164 Night at the Frontier (Part 1) Sim Hun (1901–1936) 167 When That Day Comes About the Translators 168 About the Artist 169 Acknowledgments and Permissions 170