I Must Be the Wind

By Moon Chung-hee

"'Dazzling strokes of falling stars in falling water. I want to write poems like that, ' writes Moon Chung-hee. Thanks to Silberg and You, these poems dazzle bright in English. Here love is violent and 'suffered, an encysted stone . . . wedged' in the heart, and defiance trembles the soul: 'Dress up for men, you say? / Nonsense / I stripped / for them . . . the world's women / root on earth, naked.' Chung-hee casts off 'the watch and mink stole, ' and exclaims: 'I want to be a free dancer from now on.'"--Sholeh Wolp

Moon Chung-hee's poetry is passionate, impetuous, a poetry of love, epiphany, feminist assertion, even rebellion.

Richard Silberg co-translated, with Clare You, The Three Way Tavern and This Side of Time, by Ko Un. He is author of The Horses: New and Selected Poems.

Clare You is the Chair of the Center for Korean Studies at USC Berkeley, and has co-translated modern Korean poetry and fiction into English.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935210602
• ISBN13: 9781935210603
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"