Hail, Che! - (The Moon Country Korean Poetry) by Pak Jeong-de (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

An explosive collection of revolutionary poems that make the case that only poetry can save humanity.

Korean poet Pak Jeong-de envisioned Hail, Che! as a textual performance that sings and dreams of revolution. In these poems, he invokes the names of more than 200 artists-- writers, musicians, filmmakers, and painters--whom he considers comrades capable of saving humanity. Throughout Hail, Che!, he pays exquisite attention to the sounds of life, attuned to the musicality of living and the unspoken poems that present themselves to those who exercise a poet's attention.

Full of reverie and reflection, Hail, Che! celebrates the revolutionary humans who write poetry and perform, laboring in love.

About the Author

Pak Jeong-de is the author of numerous notable works including Fragments, In the Gyeong-eyolbiyeol-do of My Youth, Snow Still Falls like Music, Amur Guitar, Chemical Origin of Love And Fever, Distance of All Possibility, Job That Is Called Life, From Her to Eternity, Slavic Love, Map of the French Orphan, Short Stories, Journey of Life, Comfort from Others, La Rue du Flocon de Neige, or The Art of the Snowflake, Words of a Barbarian Traveling Through the Snow, and more. Pak is the recipient of the Kim Dal-jin Literature Prize, Sowol Poetry Prize, and Daesan Literature Award. He is currently involved in the "Ezure Arcade Project" and is a member of the Sugarless Cigarette Club and the International Poetry Radical Barbarians' Band.

Ed Bok Lee is the author of three books of poetry including Whorled and Mitochondrial Night. A recipient of an American Book Award and a PEN/Open Book Award, Lee holds an MFA from Brown University and teaches poetics at Metropolitan State University in Minnesota.

Eun-Mi Yang has authored five books, including poetry collections and anthologies. She has also translated dozens of works, including The Two Koreas. Her translations have been featured in Asymptote, The Guardian, and more. A Best of the Net nominee, she studied creative writing at the University of Edinburgh where she won the Grierson Verse Prize. She teaches creative writing at Shilla University.