{"id":1365,"date":"2019-06-27T17:06:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T17:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2023-12-21T13:17:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T13:17:51","slug":"kooseul-kim-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/kooseul-kim-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Kooseul Kim, South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kooseul Kim (<\/strong>\uae40\uad6c\uc2ac<\/strong>), South Korea<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kooseul Kim. Poet, Professor Emeritus at Hyupsung University.\u00a0<\/strong>She earned Ph.D(English literature) from Korea University, Korea.\u00a0<\/strong>She was Dean of Graduate School, Hyupsung Univ. and Visiting Scholar at UCLA.\u00a0<\/strong>She received insignia from Vietnam Writers\u2019s Association for the cause of Vietnam\u2019s Literature and Arts in 2019.\u00a0<\/strong>She earned Hongjae(Pseudonym of the 22nd<\/sup> King of Chosun Dynasty) Literary Grand Prize(2018) and Suwon Literary Prize(2018).\u00a0<\/strong>She is writing the \u2018Kim Kooseul Column\u2019 for Kyunggi Newspaper and contributing English Translation of Korean Poetry to the quarterly Suwon Literature<\/em>.\u00a0<\/strong>She is <\/strong>Chair, Review Committee of Changwon KC International Literary Prize and <\/strong>Vice Chair Organizing Committee of Changwon KC International Literary Prize. <\/strong><\/p>\n

She is Advisor, Society of East-west Comparative Literature, Vice President, Society of East \u2013west Comparative Literature, Advisor, T.S. Eliot Society of Korea<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0She was President of T.S. Eliot Society of Korea and Baeksong Literary Society.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>As a poet and scholar of English literature, she produced a considerable body of literary works including <\/strong>Lost Alleys, 21st<\/sup> T.S. Eliot<\/em><\/strong>, T.S. Eliot\u2019s Poetry, Society, Art<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Completed Poetry of W.B. Yeats<\/em><\/strong>, Understanding Modern English Poetry<\/em><\/strong>, and T.S. Eliot and the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Her poems have been translated into many languages, including English and\u00a0<\/strong>Japanese.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Life is,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Looking at those remaining alive
\nWithout looking away from life
\nAt every turn of life<\/p>\n

Throwing a question only once
\nAt the moment of death<\/p>\n

Life is,
\nStaring at myself serenely
\nAs I did when I first looked at the world
\nHolding another I close
\nTo my heart.<\/p>\n

Having me realize the innermost recess of the soul.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Snow Flowers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Belated spring-snow falling on early plum blossoms
\nEach story hangs on each snow flower
\nSome flowers make an ecstatic flower path toward the sky
\nOthers, hovering in the air
\nFall on the ground after all, never to fly<\/p>\n

Each heart seeing flowers
\nWinds up a wound tightly
\nThe debris of a wound only flutter around
\nFrom snow flowers cherishing a wish in vain<\/p>\n

Abruptly,
\nA flower palanquin crosses a ridge in the waxing moon sky
\nThe path of sad songs is filled with dances without pain
\nA tedious time holds its breath in the empty heart
\nSilence staring into an instant
\nIs white and deep<\/p>\n

Writing Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writing poetry,
\nIs gazing at
\nThe innermost scar,
\nStaring at the closure
\nCautiously unwrapping
\nThe bandage tightly wrapped<\/p>\n

. . . . .<\/p>\n

Secretly looking into the scar over and over again
\nThat no one can see
\nIs something brave and glorious
\nAs it means looking into the heart of pain
\nThough knowing it hurts.
\nAs a poet said
\nPoetry is pain and glory.<\/p>\n

Moderation of the Laundry<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seeming to fly in the wind
\nSeeming to go up to the cloud
\nThe thing, still enduring to the end,
\nKeeps the risky borderline<\/p>\n

The sunnier it gets
\nThe harder it blows
\nThe thing,
\nThe stronger its resistance<\/p>\n

Hung with the small clothespins,
\nThe thing,
\nNeither attachment nor self-indulgence
\nKeeps moderation<\/p>\n

With the pole set in the ground,
\nThe thing, after flying into the air
\nToward the sun, to the cloud
\nEventually coming down to the earth
\nKnows its place<\/p>\n

Helping to keep the laundry in balance,
\nNeither a clothesline nor a clothespin,
\nIs moderation and tension
\nAmong the wash, the clothesline and the clothespin
\nConsidered harder
\nThan standing on the sharp blade<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

An End of Life<\/strong><\/p>\n

Living
\nIs straying out of the center,
\nThough running all the way
\nStriving not to lose the middle way
\nStaring compulsively at the middle,
\nLooking back,
\nI am always straying in the wrong way<\/p>\n

Living
\nIs evading the truth,
\nWavering between the attraction and fear
\nEscaping the encounter with the self
\nLying unconsciously
\nIt is a way irrevocable<\/p>\n

On the way without way without warmth
\nStares
\nFaraway
\nA leaden silence
\nFaltering to find its own way
\nAt an end of life irreparable.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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