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Dawn of Labor
Hardcover
Series: Hawai'i Studies on Korea
Literary CriticismGeneral PoetryKorean History
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ISBN10: 0824894049
ISBN13: 9780824894047
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: Mar 31 2024
Pages: 278
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780824894047
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: Mar 31 2024
Pages: 278
Language: English
Dawn of Labor, at last translated into English, is the legendary South Korean poet Park Nohae's first collection, published in 1984 when he was twenty-seven years old. Despite a government ban, the book sold a million copies and propelled Park Nohae as the generation's leading resistance poet. Dawn of Labor is an enduring classic that shook a society, transformed lives, and demonstrated the power of poetry.
The war of night labor once over,I pour cold soju over my aching heart.
Ah . . . I can't go on like this for long.
For sure, I can't go on like this.
--Dawn of Labor If I ever kill myself, I'll probably do it at dawn.
--For a Peaceful Evening We too want to become heaven.
Not a dark clouded heaven
that presses down,
but a clear blue heaven
over a world that lifts one another.
--Heaven
Ah . . . I can't go on like this for long.
For sure, I can't go on like this.
--Dawn of Labor If I ever kill myself, I'll probably do it at dawn.
--For a Peaceful Evening We too want to become heaven.
Not a dark clouded heaven
that presses down,
but a clear blue heaven
over a world that lifts one another.
--Heaven
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