Brother Anthony of Taizé

Brother Anthony of Taizé has published over forty volumes of translations of Korean literature and has received a number of awards. He has published ten volumes of work by Ko Un as well as recently published volumes of poetry by Jeong Ho-seung, Lee Seong-bok, and Ko Hyeong-ryeol. His Korean name is An Sonjae.

May 2018

Grasshoppers’ Eyes by Ko Hyeong-Ryeol

By Ko Hyeong-Ryeol

Anderson, South Carolina. Parlor Press. 2017. 121 pages. In the short introduction to Grasshopppers’ Eyes, the book’s translators assert a “Buddhist influence underlying [Ko’s] vision of exis...
January 2018

Ah, Mouthless Things by Lee Seong-Bok

By Lee Seong-Bok

Los Angeles. Green Integer. 2017. 95 pages. Ah, Mouthless Things, published in Korean in 2003 and now translated for the first time into English, is a pocket-sized collection of poems that be...
November 2017

Two Poems from Korea

By Yoo An-Jin, Kim Seung Hee

Valery's "cemetery by the sea," Sète, France / Photo by Mathieu / Flickr An Encouragement by Yoo An-Jin “The wind is rising!We must try to live!”So said Paul Valéry.How shall I adopt that Frenchman’s...
September 2015

Maninbo: Peace & War by Ko Un

By Ko Un

Brother Anthony of Taizé & Lee Sang-Wha, tr. Hexham, Northumberland. Bloodaxe Books / Dufour Editions. 2015. ISBN 9781780372426 Imagine: a young man is forced into compulsory labor while the civil...
May 2015

Patterns by Lee Si-young

By Lee Si-young

Brother Anthony & Yoo Hui-sok, tr. Copenhagen / Los Angeles. Green Integer. 2014. ISBN 9781557134226 This hefty pocketbook, Patterns, spans and selects from Lee Si-young’s ten previous co...