David R. McCann
Editor’s Note, 9
Special Feature: Contemporary Korean American Writing
Guest Editors: Heinz Insu Fenkl and Minsoo Kang
Heinz Insu Fenkl
Introduction, 13
Minnow Park
Lessons from My Grandfather, 19
Karla Kim
Our Missing Half, 23
Gary Pak
Excerpt from Brothers Under a Same Sky, 27
Yongsoo Park
Excerpt from Boy Genius, 37
Kalliope Lee
Excerpt from Sunday Girl, 49
Thomas Lee
Supernova, 57
Alice Sola Kim
Hwang’s Billion Brilliant Daughters, 71
Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Into the Future, 81
Angela Mi Young Hur
Excerpt from Folklorn, 91
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
Frank & Jindori, 107
Minsoo Kang
SUPER MARKET, 123
Janice Lee
Condemned to Look, 143
Alexander Chee
Saint Korea 1839, 153
Ed Bok Lee
Ultimate Spiritual Intelligence Test: Version 5.1, 155
Ji Lee
Mysterabbit, 161
Conversation
Kim Uchang and Karatani Kojin
Moderated by Noma Hideki
On East Asian Civilization, Past and Present, 165
Fiction
Jeon Seong-tae
Chinese Fireworks, 193
Joh Hyun
The Elegant Philosophy of the Paper Napkin, 209
Kim Nam-il
Excerpt from Ch’a Sang-mun, the Genius Rabbit, 225
Flash Fiction in Korea
Bruce Fulton
Introduction, 251
Ch’oe Su-ch’ŏl
Mouth to Mouth, 255
Ch’oe Yun
10:55, 259
Kim Sagwa
SF, 263
Kim T’ae-yong
To the End of the Hall, 265
Han Yujoo
Snow Falling on Leakage, 269
Poetry
Kim Ki-taek
Face, A Hunchback, A Tiger, A Crack, Chewing Gum, 271
Jin Eun-young
Long Fingers’ Poem, A Dictionary Made of Seven Words, Gogh, Melancholia, Disorderly Stories, 277
Special Feature: David R. McCann: Five Decades with Korean Poetry, from Andong to Cambridge
Young-Jun Lee
Interview with David R. McCann, 285
David R. McCann
Five Poems and an Essay: Cheju Island Poet Ko Un, Not This Stick, Morning Light Seoul, 1974, Strange Reckoning, The Poet’s House in Seoul, 307
Control as Modern in Sowŏl’s “Azaleas” (essay), 323
Another Perspective
Jack Saebyok Jung
Paradise Lost, a Translator’s Note, 335
Yi Sang
Paradise Lost, 341
Heinz Insu Fenkl
Kuunmong, a Translator’s Note, 357
A Ghost Story
An Excerpt from Kuunmong, 364
Image Index, 384
Notes on Contributors
Contributors, 386