The bamboo grove
Subtitle: an introduction to sijo
By: edited and translated by Richard Rutt ; [with a new preface foreword by David R. McCann].
Contributors: Rutt, Richard.
Series: Ann Arbor paperbacks
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Sijo -- Translations into English.
Description: The Sijo is the most popular and most Korean of all traditional Korean poetic forms. Sometimes likened to haiku for its brevity, a typical sijo poem follows a three-line pattern: the first two lines mimicking one another both in form and content and the last line introducing a twist or countertheme which serves to sharpen the meaning. The popularity of sijo in Korea--writers range from royalty to common citizens--is always a challenge for the translator who must often inhabit widely differing backgrounds to completely understand a poem's subtle nuances.
Notes: Includes indexes.