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Dan Disney

Dan Disney

About Dan Disney

Dan Disney’s collection, And then when the, was published in 2011. He is currently working on a new collection of poems and a collection of essays on the sublime. He teaches twentieth century poetries and poetics at Sogang University, and divides his time between Seoul, Turin, and Melbourne.



‘You’re alive, and I’m alive’: resistance and remembering in Ko Ŭn’s Maninbo

Ko Ŭn is a literary giant who has gathered together a suite of folk stories, anecdotes, vignettes and asides in order to construct the monumental edifice of his Maninbo. The title translates literally as the ‘family records of ten thousand lives’, and the poet seems compelled to record the details of those who might otherwise be erased from history.

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Trains (an Essay)

A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. Aldous Huxley, Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist The world is medium-sized. Michel Houellebecq, Lanzarote Romania (Part 1) We've …

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