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[skygiants]

I always think of myself as not being particularly interested in reading poetry, and then I read a volume of poetry full of words being used in the most gorgeous ways and feelings pushing themselves on you and remember that often I love poetry, I just don't remember that I do.

The other problem, of course, is that I have no idea how to write about poetry, at least not in a bookblogging context, so this is going to be short. schiarire recommended me Three Poets of Modern Korea: Yi Sang, Hahm Dong-Seon, and Choi Young-Mi. Aside from the fact described in the title of the book, the poets don't have much in common with each other - they come from different time periods, write in different styles and take different themes. Yi Sang is a morbid, clever, experimental surrealist writing under Japanese rule. I like his poems when I do and when I don't have any idea what he's saying. Hahm Dong-Seon started writing in the aftermath of the Korean War; his poems are more nostalgic. They're gorgeous, but I don't find them quite as interesting. Choi Young-Mi is the youngest, and she is fierce and funny and blunt and I may like her best of all. But of course I have no way to tell how the translation is, and they may all be saying something different than I think.

In other news, I wasn't actually planning on starting to cross-post at DW. It's just that with the recent DDOS attacks on LJ coinciding with a virus infection on my computer, I realized that there were still old bits of fic that I'd never gotten around to posting on AO3, and if I wanted to make double-sure of not losing them before I got around that laziness I should probably back up my LJ . . . and once I had all my entries backed up on Dreamwidth, it seemed kind of silly not to keep putting entries on Dreamwidth.

So: cross-posting! I TOOK THE PLUNGE. I still see myself as centrally located on LJ, but as usual, let me know where you are on DW and I will go follow you there too. (I don't mind duplicated content; that's what skimming is for! And I like to be able to stalk comments everywhere.)

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[cursor_mundi]

*pounces* Welcome to the Dreamwidth Side! I find it really easy to post here and have it auto-post to LJ -- even with the DDoS, I've not had any problems with it going through. I'm told that there's some way to get your non-Flocked LJ friends list to appear in your DW reading page, but I just toggle back and forth because I am lazy, lol.

[skygiants]

Yeah, it seems pretty easy so far! Which is good for me because I'm also extremely lazy. :D There are a few things I wish I could do - the icon thing is something I'm going to have to figure out, for one - but so far so relatively comfortable. HELLO!

[cursor_mundi]

I enjoy having mostly-separate icons depending on my platform, because it helps me track where I am...and it also gives me the option to play with other icons, depending on where I'm posting from. But then, I am the sort of user who sets her style and then doesn't change it for aaaages because OMG, effort. ;)

[skygiants]

Oh, I enjoy playing with icons, don't get me wrong. *laughing* I just have to decide if I want to have separate icons still, or just import all the same ones, or or or . . . . CHOICES ARE HARD.

[newredshoes]

Hey hey hey! *waves! with icons, for once!* There's actually a way to set up your LJ flist so that you don't have to duplicate entries -- something about filtering your default reading list.

[skygiants]

HELLO! :D I am actually cool with duplicated entries, though! Because that reminds me to click through and look at interesting comments I might have missed. (What can I say, I am a dedicated stalker.)

[schiarire]

Yay, Dreamwidth! I like DW because I don't receive LJ's e-mail and haven't for over a year. D: Difficult to carry on a conversation!

I love that book; it introduced me to Korean poetry and politics, both of which have proved very rewarding interests! I have always wanted to know more about Choi Young-Mi.

[skygiants]

D: I can see how that would make for difficulty!

Haha, you know what my main association with Yi Sang will always be . . . but it is nice to read more of his actual poems! I did a preliminary google search on Choi Young-Mi after reading the book, because I too would like to know more about her, but could not find much. :(

[schiarire]

Will your association be MADNESS? ;) But yes, the actual poems are good. It is very hard to find things about Korean poets; that is my curse...

[skygiants]

Madness and ANGRY EMILY BRONTE!

:( It could be considered like a treasure hunt . . . for literary treasure?

[schiarire]

Is "angry Emily Brontë" redundant? *runs!*

That is true, that is true! It has honed my skillz.

[kindness_says]

How did you back your entries up? Is there some kind of function, or did you have to do it manually? o_o (I can't even imagine, though I currently have few enough entries that maybe I could.)

Also, stalkerrrrr. XD

Also, I love poetry!

[skygiants]

It is pretty easy actually! There's a function on DW that allows you to import entries from another journal - it's under the 'organize' tab, when you're on your profile - and you tell it where you want them imported from and what you want imported along with it (comments, icons, etc.) and then it shoves you in a queue to have it done for you. It took DW about a day and a half to get through importing mine, but mostly that's because right now the queue is HELLA LONG due to everyone panicking over the LJ attacks.

Poetry is awesome! I just have so many novels to read that I rarely remember to read it. >.> I also enjoy writing strict-form poetry as a game for myself, though it's been a while since I sat down to do any.

[kindness_says]

Oh yeah. I backed mine up in the wee hours of this morning, on LJbook. It took me a couple tries because of multiple people trying.

Poetryyyyyyyy.

Oh, that's fun! Yeah, I always loved those exercises in class, and it makes me sad sometimes that no one does that anymore. Writing poetry that sounds beautiful AND fits a form? Impressive. Good going, Willie S.

[skygiants]

Sonnets are fun! Double dactyls: EVEN MORE FUN. (Although uh slightly less elegant.)