Broken Mirrors - Softcover

Kim, Yoon Sik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935520695 ISBN 13: 9781935520696

Publisher: NYQ Books, 2012

Synopsis

In his first full-length collection of poetry, BROKEN MIRRORS, Yoon Sik Kim forges the poetic traditions of the East and the West in a strictly Poundian sense. Following Li Po's light-foot and nature-treading tradition, Kim's passion for lyrics is found throughout the pages. Although his poems stray occasionally into societal issues, which have little to do with the Taoistic aesthetics of lyricism, such digression is unavoidable given that he endures a life of an exile in a foreign country where he tries to wring the core of human existence with this cumbersome language called English. Seeing Pound as his mentor, Kim creates a hard, precise, imagistic luminosity that dominates his poetry and begs the reader to return time and again.

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About the Author

Born in South Korea, Yoon Sik Kim had served as an officer in the Republic of Korea Air Force for five years before he came to America. He earned his Master's from the University of Oklahoma and his Ph. D. from Oklahoma State University, specializing in Ezra Pound and Modern Poetry. Having taught for more than 30 years at the college level, he now teaches part-time while sharpening the blade of his word- smithing. Married to an Okie, he homesteads in the outback of Oklahoma, where he lives with his wife, children, horses, and honeybees on a farm.

Edition details

• Publisher: NYQ Books
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935520695
• ISBN 13: 9781935520696
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108