{"title":"Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoetry and literary works from Exile Press, including bilingual and culturally rooted collections that explore memory, language, place, and everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeatured title: \u003cem\u003eBaek Seok: Poems of the North\u003c\/em\u003e, a pastoral Korean poetry collection connected to food, landscape, tradition, village life, and Korean cultural memory from a time before the division of Korea.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"9781936342099","title":"Baek Seok: Poems of the North 백석 시 모음집 – 북에서온시들 (한글+영문)","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBaek Seok: Poems of the North 백석 시 모음집 – 북에서온시들 (한글+영문) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA View Into the Lives and Culture of the People of North Korea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWINNER of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea's Poetry Grant\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTreasured in both Koreas, Baek Seok: Poems of the North opens an intriguing gateway into the spirit of the North Koreans of the 1930's-50's. In a land struggling for freedom and short of food, he treats his readers to the dishes they craved, exhibiting a Korea not in mired in the unpleasant realities of oppressive Japanese occupation, but in his imagination of its greatness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eInfluenced by the visually intense landscape objects \u0026amp; narratives of the countryside, this poet observed for us the institutions \u0026amp; character of fading local customs, infusing them with the foods \u0026amp; flavors native to Korea, a deep \u0026amp; spiritual connection to the natural world, \u0026amp; shamanic superstition while tapping into the memories \u0026amp; 'han' of the people.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWith a tone that is variously meditative, joyous, nostalgic, critical, romantic, reverent, ironic, tragic \u0026amp; even bitter, Baek Seok's blend of litany, landscape \u0026amp; legend is full of nature's color, palatal flavors \u0026amp; a tactile connection to those who people his poems.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e In a land still unified yet struggling for freedom with constant food shortages, Baek Seok treated his readers to the dishes craved by the people, exhibiting a heritage not so much of Korea in the unpleasant reality of the oppressive Japanese occupation, but in the imagination of its greatness in history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eInfluenced by the visually intense landscape objects and narratives of the countryside, Baek Seok created pastoral poetry embedded in local traditions that tapped into the memories and 'han' of the people.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFrom his earliest work, Deer to his later poems, this collection from celebrated North Korean poet, Baek Seok, whose poems originate extensively from a united Korea suffering under the weight of the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eJapanese occupation, paints a picture of the Korean countryside that is timeless in its application to her rich past of traditions, allowing us to experience his intense descriptions of a world now lost and to see into the culture and human relationships of the Korean condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLiterature Translation Institute (2014), ForewordINDIES Book of the Year Awards Winner Silver, Multicultural (Adult Fiction) (2018)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Exile Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":31915401445434,"sku":"Baek Seok 9781936342099","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Electronic book text","offer_id":31915401478202,"sku":"Baek Seok ebook 9781936342105","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0266\/9366\/4826\/files\/978-1-936342-09-9_263x_4165c80a-3716-4081-9098-f148c789e43b.jpg?v=1711435587"}],"url":"https:\/\/exilepress.com\/de\/collections\/poetry.oembed","provider":"Exile Press \/ AQM Wellness","version":"1.0","type":"link"}