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Presented by Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing
The Wounded Season: New Writing from Korea
Guest-edited by Susie Jie Young Kim
This issue includes a selection of Korean stories that focus on the power of memory and history in post-war Korea. Among the authors featured are Yi Ch’ongjun, Im Cheol Woo, Choi In Hoon, Kong Sonok.
ESSAYS
Roy Underwwater, 7
Robin Hemley
Kyongbok Palace: History, Controversy, Geomancy, 23
Min Soo Kang
Remembering Trauma: History and Counter-Memories in Korean Literature, 42
Susie Jie Young Kim
Dr. Nice Day, 149
Maria M. Hummel
SYMPOSIUM ON TRANSLATING ASIAN POETRY
The Poem behind the Poem: Literary Translation As American Poetry, 66
John Balaban, Sam Hamill, Susie Jie Young Kim, W.S. Merwin, Hiroaki Sato, Andrew Schelling, and Arthur Sze respond to Tony Barnstone
FICTION
The Ghost, 1
Ly Lan
The End of the State Highway, 15
Choi In Hoon
Spring Day, 48
Im Cheol Woo
The Wounded, 128
Yi Ch’ongjun
Parched Season, 160
Kong Sonok
The Expression, 180
Mario Benedetti
An Assailant’s Face, 181
Yi Ch’ongjun
POETRY
1956, 13
George Kalamaras
Two Poems, 21
Robert Hill Long
Three Poems, 40
Mong-Lan
Delft/Miami, 64
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Purgatorio: Canto XXXIII, 122
Dante Alighieri
Reviews, 199