English translation

Baek Seok

Poems of the North 백석 시 모음집 – 북에서온시들 (한글+영문)

Food, snow, village life and longing. Baek Seok’s poems open a world through everyday things. This illustrated hardcover brings the Korean originals and Peter N. Liptak’s English translations together on facing pages.

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Between the covers

About the book.

Footnotes, an introduction, a biographical timeline and a list of onomatopoeia give unfamiliar words and places somewhere to land.

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English and Korean versions of Summer Rice Paddy face one another above a blue rural landscape.

The short poem Rain appears in English and Korean over a blue illustration of rain rings and leaves.

The poem Mulgyeri appears bilingually above a blue coastal illustration.

A Return to the Farm appears across an English text spread with Korean source text following.

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Poems of the North 백석 시 모음집 – 북에서온시들 (한글+영문)

ISBN 9781936342099

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