A Love Song for the Earnest: Selected Poems of Shin Kyungrim

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A Love Song for the Earnest: Selected Poems of Shin Kyungrim

Author: Translated by Won-Chung Kim and James Han

Order No. 1037

ISBN-13: 9781931907392

ISBN-10: 1931907390

Binding: Paperback

Publisher: Homa & Sekey Books

Pub Year: 2006

Pages: xxiv, 72

Language: English

Size: 5.5 x 8.5

Price: $11.95

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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. Learn More…