Night-Sky Checkerboard: Poems

Night-Sky Checkerboard introduces English-language readers to the imagistic lyricism of a Korean master at the peak of his powers. As a young poet fascinated by Modernism, Oh Sae-young attempted to reproduce the inner landscapes of the dislocated self produced by industrial society before arriving at the more existentialist concerns that dominate his work today.

The present volume, fluidly translated by Brother Anthony of Taiz , reflects Oh Sae-young's harmonious fusion of image with idea, with woodpeckers pecking secret coded messages, the farmer finding the ground's erogenous zones, and a cloud factory on strike.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Phoneme Media
Published: 05/10/2016
ISBN: 9781939419477
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d