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Apr. 8th, 2011 10:32 amI 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.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.)
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.)
