Ko Un Is A Crucial Poet For

If We Want To Have A Two-class Society And An Unemployed, Welfare-crippled Lower Class That Has No Access To Equality And Educational Opportunity And No Access To Jobs And Is Resentful And Furiously Angry, We Can Have It - That's What We've Been Willing To Pay For So Far.

The Birds Are Silent In The Woods. / Just Wait: Soon Enough / You Will Be Quiet Too

It Seems Like Every Ten Years There's A Book That Says That Poetry Used To Be Popular, And Now It's Not, But We Really Have No Way Of Knowing, In Terms Of Relative Size Of Audience And Other Things, Exactly Who Readers Were.

Take The Time To Write. You Can Do Your Life's Work In Half An Hour A Day.

Longing, We Say, Because Desire Is Full Of Endless Distances.