Maninbo: Peace & War

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Five of these poems were published in Volume 1 (2007) of Azalea (published by Harvard University’s Center of Korean Studies) and have been slightly revised since: ‘Eonnyeon in Siberia’, ‘Hallelujah’, ‘Yi Jeong-yi’s Family’, ‘DDT’ and ‘Gweon Jin-gyu’. Six of the poems appeared in The Hundred Years’ War: modern war poems, edited by Neil Astley (Bloodaxe Books, 2014).

The reason why there is night should be the stars. Beneath the starlight of the night sky I have lived the chronology of my poetry.

In October 1979 I provided one of the motivations for an incident by which the most blatant dictatorship in modern Korean history had to be brought to an end. After the assassination of the dictator, I was freed from prison. However, in May the following year, with the second military coup, I abruptly became a criminal, guilty of conspiring to rebel, violating martial law, and inciting others to violate martial law, etc.

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