Kindred Gestures: Lorca and Baek Seok
Two poets who never met and shared no language made the same set of choices, and were punished for them from opposite directions.
Reading Korea
Korean literature, read alongside the rest of the world
Essays on writers who never met but made the same gesture, and short lessons for readers learning the language through what it has written.
The Beauty of the Raw: Bukowski and Kim Su-young
Admitting cowardice takes more courage than performing bravery.
Planned
In preparation
One Line at a Time
One line of a Korean poem per post: the original, a modern rendering, a translation, one grammar point, and what the translator had to decide. Beginning with Yi Sang's Mirror (1933).
Folk Tales
Korean folk tales retold and read aloud, with notes on the words and the culture behind them — the free companion to the bilingual readers.