| Heart's Agony: Selected Poems of Chiha Kim Contributor(s): Kim, Chiha (Author), Kim, Won-Chun (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1877727849 ISBN-13: 9781877727849 Publisher: White Pine Press (NY) OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1998 Annotation: First imprisoned in 1964, Korea's Chiha Kim was sentenced to death in 1974. His crime: writing poetry that provoked the military government of Chunghee Park. His sentence was commuted in 1980 following the assassination of Park. HEART'S AGONY gathers poetry from all phases of Kim's career, including poems that led to his imprisonment and torture and those written from prison. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Asian - General - Literary Criticism | Asian - General |
| Dewey: 895.714 |
| LCCN: 98-15908 |
| Series: Human Rights |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.53" W x 8.51" (0.41 lbs) 104 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - East Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Korean |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First imprisoned in 1964, Chiha Kim was sentenced to death in 1974. His crime: writing poetry that provoked the military government of Chunghee Park. Worldwide efforts to save him were begun in Japan, where his work had first been published. His sentence was commuted in 1980 following the assassination of Park and the downfall of his government. A legendary figure in South Korea, he won the Lotus Prize, generally regarded as the Third World's Nobel Prize, while imprisoned in 1975. Heart's Agony gathers poetry from all phases of his career, including poems that led to his imprisonment and torture and those written from prison. |