Ko Chang Soo et al / 고창수 / 2004 / -

This is a collection of short "epigrammatic" poems by Chang Soo Ko originally written in Korean. The narrator of the poems is conceived to be a "spider," which to the poet’s mind represents a mystic observer with "spiderly" sense of humor. The poems were written with substantial attention to poetic vision and metaphor. Some of the poems in Korean have been published in Korean literary magazines while a dozen of the poems in English translation have been carried in English-language literary journals such as Modern Poetry in Translation of U.S. and Ceide of Ireland as well as in Between Sound and Silence, a dual-language book of Ko’s poetry in Korean and English, published in Seoul and New York by Hollym International. https://www.amazon.com/What-Spider-Said-Poems-Chang/dp/1931907145