White Pine Press launched the Korean Voices Series with the mission of developing and making widely available a comprehensive selection of Korean literature, both historic and contemporary. Each year, White Pine Press publishes one to two new titles in the series. Support of this series by the Korean Literature Translation Institute and the Deasan Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.

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Shrapnel and Other Stories: Selected Stories of Dong-ha Lee

Hyun-jee Yee Sallee

This collection of stories by noted contemporary Korean writer Dong-ha Lee reflect the ordinary lives of people who have lived through the extraordinary struggles brought about by the Korean War and its aftermath. Exquisitely translated by Hyun-jae Yee Sallee, these stories by one of Korea’s most revered storytellers reflect poignantly on the lives of ordinary people in the midst of the economic miracle that has been taking place in Korea since the end of the Korean War. Having seen their homeland split in two, they cannot cope with the progress that is inexorably wiping out the last vestiges of the Korea they loved and knew. Lost and confused, they experience not only an identity crisis but question the entire meaning of life.

Fiction Asian Studies

6 x 9 176 pages $16.00 1-893996-53-0

Brother Enemy Poems of the Korean War

Translated by Ji-moon Suh

These poems, written during and following the Korean War, reflect the reality of living in a country torn in half by political ideologies. Comparable to the Civil War in that it pitted brother against brother, the partitioning of the country following the war carried the bitterness forward into the present and created a situation that has kept families from reuniting and left an entire generation longing to go home.

Twenty-one poets, male and female, North Korean and South Korean, well-known and long forgotten, appear in this collection, the first of its kind in English. The poems reflect the reality of living in a country torn in half by political ideologies. An introduction by translator Ji-moon Suh places the poems and the poets within a historical context that describes the suffering and despair of pitting brother against brother.

Poetry Asian Studies

6 x 9 176pages $16.00 1-893996-20-4

Among The Flowering Reeds: An Anthology of Classic
Korean Poetry Written In Chinese
Edited and translated by Kim Jong-gil

Poetry/Asian Studies
$16.00 176 pages ISBN 1-893996-54-9

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This major anthology presents one hundred poems drawn form a tradition spanning one thousand years of Korean poets writing in Classic Chinese. Kim Joh-gil captures the elegant simplicity and emotional complexity of the originals in three stunning translations. Up until the 17th century, the bulk of Korean poetry was written in Chinese, the language of poets, scholars, and monks. This work became an integral part of Korean literary tradition. Among the Flowering Reeds, which introduces this important poetic tradition to the English-speaking audience, includes 100 poems spanning more than 1,000 years. Lovers of Chinese and Japanese poetry will delight in these translations, which capture both the elegant simplicity and the emotional complexity of the originals.

Kim Jong-gilis a Professor Emeritus of English at Korea University in Seoul and is a member of the Korean Academy of Arts. His works of translation <I>include The Snow Falling on Chagall’s Village: Poems of Kim Ch’un-Su. He is presently completing an anthology of modern Korean poetry.

Poetry Anthology Cultural Studies Korean Voices 7
6 x 9 176 pages $16.00 1-893996-54-9

The Snowy Road : Contemporary Korean Fiction
Edited and Translated by Hyun-jae Yee Sallee and Dr. Teresa Margadonna Hyun

“The beauty of these stories is the simplicity of the image-invoking writing. As states in the preface, the Korean style of literature can be compared to ‘watching a gentle ripple on a pond.’” —Copley News Service

Volume 1 Dispatches Series

ISBN 1-877727-19-9 • 5 1/2 81/2 • 167 pages • $12.00 paper

Sketch of the Fading Sun Wan-suh Park

Hyun-jae Yee Sallee

Three short stories and a novella look at the lives of Korean women and the impact of the Korean war and the division of their country has had on their lives. Various women of different ages and positions find themselves caught by a male dominated society that refuse to let women determine the paths that their lives take.

Fiction Asian Studies Dispatches Series 4 $15.00

ISBN 1-877727-93-8

Heart's Agony: Selected Poems of Chiha Kim
Translated by Won-Chun Kim and James Han
Edited by Won-Chun Kim
Human Rights Series, Volume 5
Poetry, Multicultural Studies

Thirty years of work from this Korean writer whose death sentence and imprisonment made him a worldwide human rights symbol.

First imprisioned in 1964, Chiha Kim was sentenced to death in 1974. His crime: writing poetry that provoked the military governmentof Chunghee Park. Worldwide efforts to save him were begun in Japan, and his sentence was commuted in 1980 following the assassination of Park. A legendary figure in SouthKorea, he won the Lotus Prize, generally regarded as the Third World's Nobel Prize, while imprisoned in 1975. Heart's Agony gathers peotry form all phases of his career, including poems that led to his imprisonment and torture and those written from prison.

ISBN 1-8777-27-84-9 ·5.5x8.5 ·104 pages ·$14.00

Strong Winds at Mishi Pass

Tong-Gyu Hwang

Tong-Gyu Hwang is recognized as one of the mostimportant poets in contemporary South Korea. Strong Wind At Mishi Pass draws work from his three most recent books.

“Hwang uniquely combines bold contemporary images and traditional Oriental spareness to reveal the integrity of a world where nature and human beings must rely on each other in the face of all that would strip away meaning and dignity.”
-Grace Loving Gibson

The first widely available translation in English of one of South Korea’s most important contemporary poets. Tong-Gyu Hwang is recognized as one of the most important poets in contemporary South Korea. This volume draws work from three of his recent books and includes a number of his Wind Burial poems that haven't appeared in English previously.

Poetry Asian Studies

6 x 9 128 pages $15.00 1-893996-10-7