Brother Anthony of Taizé

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Brother Anthony of Taizé has published over forty volumes of translations of Korean literature and has received a number of awards. He has published ten volumes of work by Ko Un as well as recently published volumes of poetry by Jeong Ho-seung, Lee Seong-bok, and Ko Hyeong-ryeol. His Korean name is An Sonjae.

Concealed Words by Sin Yong-Mok
By Sin Yong-Mok

Sin Yong-Mok
Boston. Black Ocean. 2022. 88 pages. Surely Sin Yong-Mok is a humanist, albeit complexly so, his dreamlike free-verse poems both ferociously secular and transcendentally fixated. Love, sorrow, death—F…
Liking in Silence by Kim Sa-in
By Kim Sa-in

Kim Sa-in
Buffalo, New York. White Pine Press. 2019. 120 pages. IN THE PREFACE to Liking in Silence, eminent Korean poet Kim Sa-in tells his readers that “[growing] up through an era o…
Grasshoppers’ Eyes by Ko Hyeong-Ryeol
By Ko Hyeong-Ryeol

Ko Hyeong-Ryeol
Anderson, South Carolina. Parlor Press. 2017. 121 pages. In the short introduction to Grasshopppers’ Eyes, the book’s translators assert a “Buddhist influence underlying [Ko’s] vision of exis…
Ah, Mouthless Things by Lee Seong-Bok
By Lee Seong-Bok

Lee Seong-Bok
Los Angeles. Green Integer. 2017. 95 pages. Ah, Mouthless Things, published in Korean in 2003 and now translated for the first time into English, is a pocket-sized collection of poems that be…
Two Poems from Korea
By Yoo An-Jin , By Kim Seung Hee
November 2017
Yoo An-Jin, Kim Seung Hee
Valery's "cemetery by the sea," Sète, France / Photo by Mathieu / Flickr An Encouragement by Yoo An-Jin “The wind is rising!We must try to live!”So said Paul Valéry.How shall I adopt that Frenchman’s…
Maninbo: Peace & War by Ko Un
By Ko Un

Ko Un
Brother Anthony of Taizé & Lee Sang-Wha, tr. Hexham, Northumberland. Bloodaxe Books / Dufour Editions. 2015. ISBN 9781780372426 Imagine: a young man is forced into compulsory labor while the civil…
Patterns by Lee Si-young
By Lee Si-young

Lee Si-young
Brother Anthony & Yoo Hui-sok, tr. Copenhagen / Los Angeles. Green Integer. 2014. ISBN 9781557134226 This hefty pocketbook, Patterns, spans and selects from Lee Si-young’s ten previous co…