Dawn of Labor / / Nohae Park.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Complete eBook-Package 2024
• VerfasserIn: Park, Nohae,
• MitwirkendeR: Anthony, Brother,; Kim, Cheehyung Harrison,; Poole, Janet,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 1 b&w illustration

Dawn of Labor, at last translated into English, is the legendary South Korean poet Park Nohae’s first collection, published in 1984 when he was twenty-seven years old. Despite a government ban, the book sold a million copies and propelled Park Nohae as the generation’s leading resistance poet. Dawn of Labor is an enduring classic that shook a society, transformed lives, and demonstrated the power of poetry. The war of night labor once over,I pour cold soju over my aching heart.Ah . . . I can’t go on like this for long.For sure, I can’t go on like this. —“Dawn of Labor”If I ever kill myself, I’ll probably do it at dawn. —“For a Peaceful Evening”We too want to become heaven.Not a dark clouded heaventhat presses down,but a clear blue heavenover a world that lifts one another.—“Heaven”

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Romanization, Translation, and Glossary -- PART I Our Love, Our Unrelenting Life -- Heaven -- No Way to Stop -- A Newlywed’s Diary -- Made for Each Other -- While I Mend the Bedding -- How Much? -- Where Will We Go? -- The Han River -- Longing -- The Bar Wagon -- Garibong Market -- Calling for Fingerprints -- English Conversation -- Off to Rot -- Record of My Journey with Men -- Incomprehensible Tales -- Becoming Wise -- PART II Dawn of Labor -- Bargain Sale -- The Dream of an Apprentice -- Spring -- Sleepiness -- Working on Sunday -- A Hand Grave -- Maybe -- When I Give You Up -- A Real Worker -- For a Peaceful Evening -- Dawn of Labor -- No Other Way -- Sunset -- PART III For a New Land -- Love -- The Wind to the Stones -- Searching for Food -- Confrontation -- A Song about Leaving -- Am I Drifting? -- Samcheong Reeducation Camp I -- Mother -- A Beautiful Confession -- I Am Nothing Special -- Walls -- Illusions -- Dawn of Labor in Korean -- Glossary -- The Worker-Poet in Mass Culture -- Poet Militant, Poet Inspirational -- About Park Nohae -- About the Translators and Contributor