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Ko Hyeong-ryeol

Ko Hyeong-ryeol was born in Sokcho in 1954. After publishing his first poetry collection, Daecheongbong Watermelon Field, in 1985, he published I Am Not at Erdenzo Temple and Passing through the Vitreous Body. In 2023 he published his first selection of poems in 44 years: The Wind Comes and Becomes The Wind. In 1995 he published “Little Boy”, a long poem depicting the horrors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and published seven volumes of Zhuangzi’s “Bungsae” (大鵬), a long poem about a bird ascending to the sky. His poetry collection Fish is a Hermit was published in Indonesia and stored in the HB Jassin Literary Documentation Centre.

In the Wasteland of Other Languages

In my heart nothing was left. Not even the ruins of a future wiped out by the cruel, modern world. No flying ridge, mountain shade, not even that dust speck that hurt my eye is hanging. They’re gone. A vision …

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Sea

Now I’m off to the beach for a walk. The sea our fathers didn’t know, can you go there? Now I’m off to the beach of the nothing sea. I crossed the road, and passed a kindergarten and street trees, …

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Following One Child

The path that blows here from only the north wind of winter, a child walks like a blanket. Fishy and bitter. My poems are again subjected to insult. Night God, that naked dad is a boy again and that naked …

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