Research Catalog

Title

Scale and stairs : selected poems of Heeduk Ra / translated by Won-Chung Kim and Christopher Merrill.

Author

Na, Hŭi-dŏk.

Publication

Buffalo, N.Y. : White Pine Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kim, Wŏn-jung, 1963-
• Merrill, Christopher.

Description

87 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The Korean voices series ; v. 14

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections. English
• Korean voices series ; v. 14.

Alternative Title

• Poems.
• Scale & stairs

Contents

Sometimes spring visits me, and -- Vanishing palm -- The smoke of my breath -- The word for "Yeo" -- Like a dried fish -- The custom of aerial burial -- New moon -- Breakfast -- At Chunjang Lake -- Winter morning -- He's in a dark cloud -- Renting a room -- A shovelful of earth -- The cliff by my side -- Under the icecap -- Crescent -- A door opens -- It was autumn -- Tree was on a truck -- The stockings I removed -- Clothes of ash -- Keugragkang Station -- I wonder who weeps -- Where did my shadow go? -- The shadow of the rain -- Thirst -- A thousand hands -- As many pagodas as geese -- Mountain flowers on the day -- Those red, red flowers -- A stop on a walk -- How far does the light -- Crying over light-green -- Excavation -- House facing north -- That part of the wave -- Past the happiness rehabilitation center and the hungry bridge -- A bowl of cooked rice in soup -- In this corridor -- The elevator -- White cloud -- Scale and stairs -- Mud pupil -- Cutting off a finger -- Picnic -- Red mandala -- The eye beyond the aquarium -- Under the oak tree -- Grass graves -- Bright as the North Star -- In the sunlight of the island -- I saw a tobacco flower -- The side of a pine -- Deeper than the valley -- Shower -- After cold rain - first letter -- When the bough sways - second letter -- Strange home -- The way to Tumen -- Another leaf -- History of a phonograph -- St. Zeldova tree -- Silkworm with a black dot -- The underground flower.

ISBN

• 9781893996243
• 1893996247

LCCN

40016541077

OCLC

• ocn216936893
• 216936893
• SCSB-5465277

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries