The Three Way Tavern - Selected Poems

Foreword Gary Snyder xi Introduction Clare You xvii FROM Song of Tomorrow (1992) Today 5(24) Song of That Day 6(1) Front of a Tree 7(1) The Woman of Kageo Island 8(1) Arirang 9(2) Grand Dame Choi Kumja 11(1) Strange Land 12(1) Cold Mountain 13(1) First 14(1) Memorial Night 15(1) Song of Innocence 16(2) Kangaroo 18(1) A Boat 19(1) My Resume 20(2) The Cow Is Laughing 22(1) You and I 23(1) A Slice of Old Moon 24(1) Sosan Granny 25(1) Confucius, One Day 26(3) FROM The Road Ahead (1993) Majung Village 29(1) Ignorant Man 30(1) Empty Field 31(1) Memories 32(1) My Spring 33(1) After Stacking the Chopped Pines 34(1) The Poem in Last Night's Dream 35(1) In the Woods 36(1) Mother's Dew 37(1) Chirping of a Cricket 38(1) A Cup of Green Tea 39(1) Grandfather's Advice 40(1) The Road Ahead 41(4) FROM A Cenotaph (1997) My Poems 45(2) Forgetting 47(1) Going Over Ssari Hill 48(1) By the Window 49(1) Sumano Pagoda 50(2) Fallacy 52(1) The Poet 53(1) Poems of the Peninsula 54(4) Hometown 58(1) Untitled 59(1) A Cenotaph 60(2) Anapurna 62(1) Lullaby 63(1) The Voice of Baekdam Monastery 64(1) Alone One Day 65(1) About the Time Crepe Myrtles Bloomed 66(1) Lion 67(2) Self-Portrait 69(1) Spring News 70(1) Sadness 71(1) The Winter Sky 72(1) Breeze 73(1) Salmon 74(1) Back Home 75(1) Passing through a Mountain Village 76(1) The Croaking of Frogs 77(1) At Buan Gomso 78(1) After a Hangover 79(1) But 80(1) Empty Hands 81(4) FROM Ten Thousand Lives (1986-) Traveler 85(1) January Full Moon 86(1) Morning Rooster 87(1) Women of Sunjeri 88(1) The Street Kids 89(1) Byong'ogi 90(1) Mansooni, Comfort Woman 91(1) Letters 92(2) Aunt 94(1) Uncle Jaemoon 95(2) A Good Day 97(1) Planting Rice 98(1) Mountain Well 99(1) Mitsukoshi Department Store 100(1) Lark 101(1) Kasame Salt Flats 102(1) Sudong's Swallows 103(2) Ch'ilyong'i 105(1) Chungdu's Mother 106(1) Ttaoggi 107(1) Tavern Justice 108(1) Three-Headed Eagle 109(1) YH Kim Kyungsook 110(3) FROM Ko Un's Son Poems: What? (1991) Echo 113(1) Owl 113(1) Baby 113(1) Coming Down the Mountain 114(1) Bushman 114(1) Looking Back 114(1) Drunkard 115(1) Friend 115(1) The Three Way Tavern 116(1) Late Summer 116(1) Tsetse Fly 116(1) Moon 117(1) Green Frog 117(1) Held in Your Arms 117(1) Cuckoo 118(1) Way 118(1) Winds 119(1) Cheju's Reed Field 119(1) Mosquito 120(1) House 120(1) Summer 120(1) From A Cenotaph: Cheju Island 121(12) FROM The Whisper (1998) Afterlife 133(1) Suddenly 134(1) Stars and Flowers 135(1) Unlike Laozi 136(1) You 137(1) Confession 138(1) Peace 139(1) A Certain Song 140(1) Meeting Myself 141(1) Barley Field 142(2) Mustard Flowers in April 144(1) Early Spring 145(1) Searching for the Cow 146(3) Coda: The Thuja Fence 149(2) Notes 151