Dawn of Labor

Dawn of Labor, at last translated into English, is the legendary South Korean poet Park Nohae’s first collection, published in 1984 when he was twenty-seven years old. Despite a government ban, the book sold a million copies and propelled Park Nohae as the generation’s leading resistance poet. Dawn of Labor is an enduring classic that shook a society, transformed lives, and demonstrated the power of poetry. The war of night labor once over, I pour cold soju over my aching heart. Ah . . . I can’t go on like this for long. For sure, I can’t go on like this. —"Dawn of Labor" If I ever kill myself, I’ll probably do it at dawn. —"For a Peaceful Evening" We too want to become heaven. Not a dark clouded heaven that presses down, but a clear blue heaven over a world that lifts one another. —"Heaven

General

Imprint:	University of Hawaii Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Hawai‘i Studies on Korea
Release date:	March 2024
Authors:	Park Nohae
Translators:	Cheehyung Harrison Kim • Brother Anthony
Dimensions:	216 x 140mm (L x W)
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-0-8248-9564-8
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-8248-9564-9
Barcode:	9780824895648

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