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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANIMAL FARM, OR SONG OF THE COLONIAL GOVERNOR-GENERAL, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Admit it. You hate the body
Last Line: It shamed you to cover with dung
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


AUBADE ENDING WITH LINES FROM THE JAPANESE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sound of wind hissing through muslin curtains
Last Line: We're alive and can see each other, you and I
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


BETWEEN THE WARS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You cannot hear her
Last Line: Unspeakable, its icy space [or, spaces] opening
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


BORDERLANDS; FOR MY GRANDMOTHER, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Crush my eyes, bitter grapes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Death; Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Soldiers; Dead, The


BRIGHT ZONE, by MO YUNSUK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like ten thousand arrows shot into the air
Last Line: Be the life of twenty million souls everlasting
Subject(s): Korea


CHART, by MYUNG MI KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Purpose lost
Last Line: To be precisely from nowhere
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Korea; Pacific Ocean; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


CONFESSIONS, by YUN DONG-JU    Poem Source                    
First Line: My face that shows life
Last Line: Of a lonely man walking sadly %under a blazing meteor
Subject(s): Korea - Japanese Colonial Rule


COSMOGRAPHY, by MYUNG MI KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who even came this way, bellow or saw
Last Line: Sound as it comes. Alkali, snag snag sang %usher liberty
Subject(s): Books; Korea; Language; Planets; Poetry And Poets; Universe; Writing And Writers


COUPLE NEXT DOOR, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tend their yard every weekend, %when they re-paint or straighten
Last Line: On the grass. I should look away but don't
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


DICTEE: ELITERE LYRIC POETRY, by THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Day recedes to darkness
Last Line: Stops writing at all
Subject(s): Korea; Language


DOES SPRING COME TO THESE FORFEITED FIELDS?, by LEE SANG-HWA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Does spring come to this land no more our own
Last Line: But now that the land is no more our own %spring can no longer be our own
Subject(s): Korea


DOVE IN SONGBUKDONG, by KIM KWANG-SUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The city growing with a new lot number assigned
Last Line: And is left homeless incapable of evoking %the very idea of love and peace
Subject(s): Seoul, Korea


DRUNK METAPHYSICS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've never been one soul
Last Line: Sixty trillion cells-all drunk!
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


FIVE THIEVES, by CHI-HA KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you're gonna write poetry
Last Line: In the lines of beggar poets %like me
Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Crime And Criminals; Government; Korea - Rebellions; Poetry And Poets


FLIGHT, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We ran from a home %we never saw again
Last Line: The soon is mute
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


FRAGMENTS OF THE FORGOTTEN WAR, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You whom I could not protect
Last Line: I think of a carcass foaming with maggots, the bone black with hatching flies
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


FUGUE FOR EYE AND VANISHING POINT, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me the clarity, the sharpness
Last Line: Infinite engine trapped in skin
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


GENERATION, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I was nothing: once we were one
Last Line: Each question answered by the echo of my voice alone: I, I, I
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


GIVING A MANICURE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woman across from me looks so familiar,
Subject(s): Nailshops; Women; Korea


GREAT PINE-TREE SPRAWLING LIKE A DRAGON, by KIM CHINT'AE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Who says the martyr, song, is dead? %I see him incarnate in you
Subject(s): Korea - Rebellions


HANJI: NOTES FOR A PAPERMAKER, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shaped like a slab of granite
Last Line: My work, keep your mouth shut'
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


HUSK, BE GONE, by SHIN TONG'YOP    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Let all glinting metals go %and only sweet earth remain
Subject(s): Korea - Rebellions


HWAJON (FIRE-FIELD), by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no need to keep
Last Line: Hurls me, astonished and stinging, into the acid light
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


I LIVE HERE, by SONG CH'UNBOK    Poem Source                    
Last Line: For the love of this land %for a taste of fresh spring water
Subject(s): Korea


KOREAN COMMUNITY GARDEN IN QUEENS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the vacant lot nobody else wanted to rebuild
Last Line: Who stop at nothing, see life and paradise as one [or, life the one paradise they wanted]
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Queens, New York City


LABORS, by MYUNG MI KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: With foremost authority assume
Last Line: A bearing. Affix
Subject(s): Explorers; Immigrants; Korea; Labor And Laborers; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


LAND FOREVER OUR OWN, by PARK PONG'U    Poem Source                    
First Line: I waited for love
Last Line: This land, our eternal home, %is silent, stained with bloodmarks
Subject(s): Korea


LEAVING CHINATOWN, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peeling a mango to share between us, your mother
Last Line: Faces, even yours, she might have looked into with love
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Variant Title(s): On Pike Stree
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


LEVITATIONS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today I saw my dead great-aunt levitating over the hudson in red
Last Line: Except for the humans-faced masks they kept trying to tear off
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


LISTEN, NAN PAI, NEVER GIVE IN, by KIM SANGHON    Poem Source                    
Last Line: How many heroes since antiquity %have known tears?
Subject(s): Heroism; Korea - Rebellions


LOOKING AT A YI DYNASTY RICE BOWL, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Seeing this plain %white clay
Last Line: I am finally ready %to have as they are
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


MIDDLE KINGDOM, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gruel, crumbs on a table
Last Line: So as not to frighten her
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


MIND OF KOREA, by PYON YONGNO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where is the mind of korea to be sought?
Last Line: The mind of korea has lost its direction. %sad
Subject(s): Korea


MONOLOGUE FOR AN ONION, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not mean to make you cry
Last Line: A heart that will one day beat you to death
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Onions


MONTAGE WITH NEON, BOK CHOI, GASOLINE, LOVERS & STRANGERS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: None of the streets here has a name
Last Line: May you never remember & may you never forget
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


NOCTURNE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If these are not [or, because these are not] the nights of empty hands
Last Line: When we'll feel [or, remember] the indifference of the sea
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


OCCUPATION, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The soldiers are
Last Line: There is room %for everyone
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


ON SPARROWS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are the song that lies beyond the ear
Last Line: White-throated. Gold-crowned. Vesper. Song
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


PENRHYN'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO SECOND: 3. KOREA, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In funnel-hats, and gowns of white
Last Line: And meets the eye nor hill nor wood.
Subject(s): Korea


PRELUDE FOR GRAINS OF SAND, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the harbor with its tackle and roped masts
Last Line: You sang me beyond song
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


PROGRESS IN LEARNING, by MYUNG MI KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: May be called
Last Line: Polity harvest other human constructs
Subject(s): Immigrants; Korea; Learning


RESISTANCE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Snuff out the collaborators, sense by sense
Last Line: Summer wind sang through the corpse-forest
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


RICE, OR SONG OF ORIENTALAMENTATIONS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now. %I %see %you %completely
Last Line: Fail %me, %thing
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


ROAD TO SKYE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is paved with sheep shit, among other things
Last Line: Who want and want and want, drive to no end
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Roads


ROBEMAKER, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You begin. In your arms, unreeling bolts
Last Line: Here your hand has long since moved away
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


SAD DESIGN, by SHIN SUK-JUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heaven %and I
Last Line: What star in the night sky can soothe my mind?
Subject(s): Korea - Japanese Colonial Rule


SKINS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pretend I can't see %the lady in pearls mistaking me
Last Line: So I did sit and eat'
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


SONG FOR THE HOMELAND, by KIM JONG-HAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The moon shines upon the sungari
Last Line: I see in my dream the boats %ferrying across the tumer river
Subject(s): Korea


SONG OF CH'U: TO THE SEA-WIND, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I'm frightened. I see
Last Line: To you already. I want %to be one
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


SONGS OF KOSAN: 1, by YI YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The nine bends in kosan
Last Line: Here I think of wui-shan %and read the master chu hsi
Subject(s): Kosan Mountain, North Korea


SONGS OF KOSAN: 10, by YI YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where is the nineth bend?
Last Line: Now nobody ventures to come this far; %they say there's nothing to see
Subject(s): Kosan Mountain, North Korea


SONGS OF KOSAN: 2, by YI YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where is the first bend of water?
Last Line: I set the wine jar under the pines %as I wait for my coming friends
Subject(s): Kosan Mountain, North Korea


SONGS OF KOSAN: 3, by YI YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where is the second bend?
Last Line: The world does not know of this place. %what matter if I tell of it?
Subject(s): Kosan Mountain, North Korea


SONGS OF KOSAN: 4, by YI YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where is the third bend?
Last Line: Light wind fans the dwarf pines %and summer seems out of place
Subject(s): Kosan Mountain, North Korea


SONGS OF KOSAN: 5, by YI YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where is the fourth bend?
Last Line: The woods and spring water are deep and quiet. %I cannot suppress my mirth
Subject(s): Kosan Mountain, North Korea


SONGS OF KOSAN: 6, by YI YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where is the fifth bend?
Last Line: Here I can teach young men %and converse with nature as well
Subject(s): Kosan Mountain, North Korea


SONGS OF KOSAN: 7, by YI YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where is the sixth bend?
Last Line: I shoulder my fishing rod %and return home in the moonlight
Subject(s): Kosan Mountain, North Korea


SONGS OF KOSAN: 8, by YI YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where is the seventh bend?
Last Line: I sit alone on the cold rock %forgetful of returning home
Subject(s): Kosan Mountain, North Korea


SONGS OF KOSAN: 9, by YI YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where is the eighth bend?
Last Line: Nobody knows the ancient strains %so I alone delight in them
Subject(s): Kosan Mountain, North Korea


SQUID TOWN, KOREA, by CATHY HONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Later, they will turn edible, dry into rich salt hides. But now, they
Last Line: Devour all of it, the slimy rawness, severing its ink jet and use its %black to seal my signature
Subject(s): Korea; Sea Monsters


STYLE, by KIRK NESSET    Poem Source                    
First Line: She stood and delivered, unsightly, those nights
Last Line: To settle. We're dying, we think
Subject(s): Korea; Women


THE CHASM, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dream vultures circle above my mother's cousin
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Soldiers


THIRTY AND FIVE BOOKS, by MYUNG MI KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Never having been here when the sun rose
Last Line: All harmonics sound
Subject(s): Aliens; Ethnic Groups - United States; Korea; Labor And Laborers; Navigation; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


TORIWON VILLAGE, by CHO JI-HOON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once over, the heart-rending war
Last Line: And those full-blown cosmoses %sway in the chill wind
Subject(s): Korea


TRANSIT CAR, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thunder of wheels on tracks. Hidden pistons punch
Last Line: Only clarity remains and it is not enough
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MOTHER TONGUE: 1. KHIMJAHNG, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It held you once. Chora of hands splashing water
Last Line: Steep them in the element that destroys and saves
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MOTHER TONGUE: 2. P'ANSORI, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are singing of bamboo flutes and barrel drums
Last Line: The part of you that first began to sing
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


TREE OF KNOWLEDGE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go back, you'll never see it again
Last Line: Lie to me. Say you forgive me for being born
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


TREE OF UNKNOWING, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Uncertainty, take me into the forest %leaf by leaf
Last Line: I wonder who you were: I wonder %because you were
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953


WHAT DOES IT MATTER IF AZALEAS BLOW?, by PARK PONG'U    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the blood-gust of april
Last Line: Was it to this sad end that I shouted?
Subject(s): Korea - Rebellions