The world of Ahn Sang-Hak’s poetry is built on the philosophy of non-doing naturalism. According to this idea, since nature exists, it clearly has substance; however, since its nature is not to stay fixed, but rather to change in every moment, it only appears in variations of itself. In the same way, all beings appear,…
They(Poem) were born as part of a larger project, titled “The Future of Voice.” That is why I begin each poem with a sound effect, indicated by an international phonetic character, instead of simply adding footnotes. I hope that the sound, born in another time-space than the visiblbe(legible) screen(writing), has an unutterable effect on your…
Set in 1940s colonial Korea and Japanese-occupied Manchuria, Endless Blue Sky tells the love story between the Korean writer Ilma and the Russian dancer Nadia. The novel is both a thrilling melodrama set in glamorous locations that would shortly be tragically ravaged by war and a bold piece of writing espousing new ideas on love,…
This book is about a coming of age of a young woman trapped in a war-torn city of Seoul with her family in the 1950s. It’s an educational and a fascinating read about the Korean War. Not much information is available on what happened in Seoul during the war, so this autobiographical novel allows a…