A Love Song
for the Earnest:
Selected Poems of Shin Kyungrim
Translators: Won-Chung Kim and James Han
ISBN-13: 978-1-931907-39-2
ISBN-10: 1931907390
Order No. 1037
5.5 x 8.5 , Paperback
xxiv, 72 pages, 2006
Poetry
$11.95 20% off:$9.56
BOOK DESCRIPTION
For the Korean farmers of the second half of the twentieth
century, Korea’s shift from a farming to an industrial
society imposed hardship on their lives. Shin Kyungrim, who
understood their pain and suffering, recorded their feelings
in A Love Song for the Earnest, a collection of over sixty
poems that not only mirrors the lives of Korea’s impoverished
but also hopes for a brighter future to everyone in every
social class. Within Shin’s extraordinary sense of sympathy
lies an innate humor and will to live, which makes his poems
warm and positive.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shin Kyungrim was born in Chungju,
Korea, in 1935 and started his poetry career when he was twenty.
He has published an extensive collection of poems including
Farmer’s Dance, Bird’s Pass, Road, The Dream of
the Fallen, Grandmother and Horns. He has received many prominent
awards including the Manhae Literary Award, the Korean Literature
Award and the Daesan Literary Award.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS
Won-Chung Kim
is a professor of English literature, and James Han
is an instructor of English, at Sungkyunkwan University in
Seoul, Korea. They have co-translated the works of Chiha Kim
and Seungho Choi (Flowers in the Toilet Bowl, Homa & Sekey
Books, 2004).
