Rain, Sky, Wind, Port

Poems

By Kim Nam-Jo
Translated by Hillel Schwartz & Sunny Jung

Subjects: Poetry
Imprint: Distribution Partners
Paperback : 9781930337763, 94 pages, June 2014

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Table of contents

1. Scribble
2. Companion
3. To My Poem 4
4. Winter Flowers
5. Trees 5
6. Trees 7
7. Winter Laundry
8. Tear
9. Famine, That Story
10. Combing My Hair
11. After That
12. Last Letter
13. Door
14. Trees and Shadows
15. To The Wind
16. Days Of Wounded Soldiers
17. Peace
18. Even In The Acid Rain
19. Mirror Inside The Mirror
20. To The Mountains And The Trees
21. Birds
22. A Certain Picture
23. Toward The West
24. Sisyphus 1
25. Sisyphus 2
26. Sisyphus 3
27. Sisyphus 4
28. Winter River
29. Pain
30. That Woman
31. Flags
32. Postal Matter
33. Solitude
34. Pencil Lead
35. Concert on the 87th Children’s Day, 5 May 2010
36. To My Poem 3
37. Concerning Consolation
38. Train
39. Someone Who Listens
40. South Gate (Sungnye)
41. The Twentieth Century
42. Sunset
43. To Myself
44. Sleep
45. Desert
46. Desert 9
47. To Winter Again
48. Pocket Diary of Grief
49. Learning Something New
50. The News
51. To Despair
52. Sedan
53. To Sorrow
54. Ascension
55. Still Life
56. The Letter
57. True Love
58. A Certain Boy
59. Children
60. Food Chain
61. Toying With Self-Reproach
62. Vista
63. In Honor Of Peace
64. My Words
65. Rain
66. Sky
67. Port
68. On The Unavailing
69. Songs of Solomon 4
70. Earth
71. White Angel
72. The Dining Table Of The New Millennium
73. The Present Situation
74. A Guest From Afar
75. Confession
76. Confession 2
77. Chair
78. High Plains
79. Speaking To The Wind
80. Warm Music
81. On The Shore Of The Han In Winter
82. Silence
83. To Hope

Poems on nature and the human condition.

Description

Kim Nam-Jo's dynamic use of sensual language and vibrant imagery portrays the subtlety of human emotions. Her poems offer both an affirmation of humanity and a passion for the religious life.

Kim Nam-Jo has received numerous awards for her work, and she has served as chair of the Korean Poet's Association.