Hyonjong Chong is one of the best known and critically respected Korean poets and the recipient of numerous awards. His works demonstrates his obstinate pursuit of the relationship between poet and object. Word play and the use of puns often serve to dislocate readers from common perceptions and prejudices. Chongs poetry conveys his profound meditation on the relationship between man and man and man and things. Although his early poems depict the existential agony and pain experienced by man, shriveled by ideology and civilization, his poetic imagination transforms this pain into a festival. In Chongs later poems, his imagination develops into an ecological vision which pursues the corresponding oneness of his self and the world around him.
- ISBN10 0710306474
- ISBN13 9780710306470
- Publish Date 21 February 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 June 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Kegan Paul
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 113
- Language English