Bari's Love Song

Kang Eun-Gyo, Chung Eun-Gwi

• Publisher: Parlor Press, LLC
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781643170824
• eBook ISBN: 9781643170831
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Asian Poetry
• Index: Literature

In her early career, Kang Eun-Gyo marked nihilism as the departure of her poetic imagination. In response to the turmoil of the world and modern Korean history full of violence and violations of human rights, the poet struggled to build her poetry in a house of nothingness. With Bari's Love Song, Kang Eun-Gyo echoes the voice of a sorceress, a female shaman who treats the sadness, suffering, loss, and pain of all people. From the private losses of the poet to the universal songs of losses and love, Bari's Love Song portrays the modern history of Korea in the forms of songs and recollections of Bari, the princess from Korean folk literature who walked the land in search of hope.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Translator’s Preface
• Abel Bookstore
• Immortality
• Hyehwa-dong
• The Sound of Water in Baekmudong
• Love and Eternity
• Cherry Blossom Train
• Poetry and a Golden Kiss
• An Envelope
• Severe Illness
• A Knife
• My Street
• What I Have At This Moment
• A Word
• A Longed-For Village
• A Round Roof
• Green Sleeves
• Eunpo Station
• A Blind Alley
• Address
• Drizzle
• Let’s Make a Path
• Red Maple
• For You
• An Anchor
• Vine Leaves
• Lighthouse Song
• In the Subway
• A Wandering Star
• Song of Three Sisters
• The Sound of Footsteps
• The Floor’s Song
• An Empty Jar
• For a Dance
• Now Hold Out Your Hands
• A Stamen
• Future
• A Harbor
• At Each Valley
• Soil
• A Slope
• A Couple’s Laundry
• Smartphone
• A Self-Service Gas Station
• A Vampire Building
• The Golden-Haired Tiger of ‘Hotel Peninsula’
• Redevelopment Loneliness
• Closer, yet Closer
• Older Sister Yeong-Ju
• Jajangmyeon
• Ah, The Things That Make Me Write Poems Again Today
• Dedicating to Myself
• Seomyun
• The Woman in Tula
• The Family Photo of Mr. Taejoon Lee 1
• Free Verse Editions
• About the Author
• About the Translator
• Back cover