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이길원 시인의 영문번역시집- Sunset Glow(미네르바시선 11)

Translated by Ko Chang Soo
Editing by Deberniere J. Torrey

Gil-Won Lee’s work is full of teachings. His teachings may be summarized as admonishing a mindset for us to live like worthy humans. From that perspective, his poetry upholds statement above description, public utility over and above personal lyricism. The public literary view that regards poetry not as the expression of personal emotions but as deeply connected to public morals stands in the long tradition of Eastern poetics. In other words, it represents an ethical standpoint that attaches greater importance to the utilitarian value of content than to formal technique.
_By Young-Ho Park

His qualities as a social critic and a classical scholar are amply in evidence in his poetry, which often seems more bent on making pronouncements rather than producing poetic imagery. The desire to make pronouncements may presuppose a great deal to say about society. As the poet Je-chun Park notes, “Lee’s poems most probably derive from the spirit of a classical scholar footing a path of moderation who puts poetry and life on an equal footing.”
_By myung-su Ko

Gil-Won Lee’s work is full of teachings. His teachings may be summarized as admonishing a mindset for us to live like worthy humans. From that perspective, his poetry upholds statement above description, public utility over and above personal lyricism. The public literary view that regards poetry not as the expression of personal emotions but as deeply connected to public morals stands in the long tradition of Eastern poetics. In other words, it represents an ethical standpoint that attaches greater importance to the utilitarian value of content than to formal technique.
_By Young-Ho Park

His qualities as a social critic and a classical scholar are amply in evidence in his poetry, which often seems more bent on making pronouncements rather than producing poetic imagery. The desire to make pronouncements may presuppose a great deal to say about society. As the poet Je-chun Park notes, “Lee’s poems most probably derive from the spirit of a classical scholar footing a path of moderation who puts poetry and life on an equal footing.”
_By myung-su Ko

<차례>
1. Self-Portrait
Self-Portrait │ 12
I to You │ 14
Fated Attachment │ 16
Self-Portrait of a Hahoe Mask │ 18
Confession for the Imo Year │ 20
Meditation on Gingko Nuts Left by my Father │ 22
Mother │ 24
Bunjae │ 26
Morning Toes │ 28
One Day │ 30
A Goldfish Lives There │ 32
How to Live │ 34
Sitting on an Eggshell │ 36
In That Place Where We Start │ 38
Farewell Each Day │ 40
The Sounds of August │ 42

2. Meditation on a Cloud
I Want to Be a Bird │ 46
Like the Sunset over West Lake │ 48
Father’s Paulownia Tree │ 52
Traces of the Wind │ 54
Meditation on a Cloud │ 56
A Natural Life-Span │ 58
Confession │ 60
Full Stop Practice │ 62
Please Raise the Lamp │ 64
Lowering the Coffin │ 66
Mirror Self-Portrait │ 68
The First Morning of the Jeonghae Year │ 70
Goya’s Dog │ 72
Playing a Game of Baduk │ 74

3. Dog
Dog │ 78
Dog 3―Baron Canine’s Registration │ 80
Dog 4―Protest │ 82
Dog 5―Her Love │ 84
Dog 7―Guarding the House │ 86
That’s Enough │ 88
The Eagle of Tauru │ 90
The Baekje Ghosts of Osaka │ 92
Electronic Bard │ 94
Spring Magnolia │ 96
Music │ 98
Rachmaninoff in the Afternoon │ 100
Daisy Fleabane │ 102
Spring Flowers │ 104
Marriage Gift │ 106
Waves, Rock Island │ 108
The White Pine on Mt. Yumyeong │ 110
A Pine Tree and a Dayfly │ 112
A White Heron │ 114
Word 2 │ 116
Word 3―Fart │ 118
Word 5―Secret │ 120
Insadong Alleyways │ 122
Autumn Tints │ 124
The Sound of the Althea │ 126
Happy People Don’t Write Poetry │ 128
The Sunset’s Residual Image │ 130
The Mountains of This Land │ 132
River Sunset │ 136
Spring’s Love Song │ 138
A Flower’s Shadow │ 140
The Eulalia’s Longing │ 142
Mother’s Moon │ 144

4. Why I Dance
Moonlight │ 148
The Flower’s Tale │ 150
Winter, Birch Tree │ 152
Why I Dance │ 154
The Friend I Met on a Dream Path │ 156
Autumn Sunbeams Sweeping the Road │ 158
A Full Heart │ 160
My Poem, The First Stanza Is Wrong │ 162
Pine Tree on the Rock Island │ 164
Because of a Dead Butterfly │ 166
Bull in the Bullring │ 168
Nobody Knew │ 170
Mole │ 172
Survival Game │ 174
Tropical Fish in an Aquarium │ 176
Seoul Cicadas │ 178
Lowering the Coffin │ 180

The Yearning of the Plant Called Electronic Bard
―By Young-Ho Park │ 182
An Ordinary Middle-Class Citizen’s Perception of Reality and Wisdom of Life
―By Ko myung-su │ 193

풍자와 용사, 직설과 함축, 객관화되는 원숙한 시적 경지
이 번역시집은 이길원 시인의 그동안 발표된 시들을 모아 번역 출간된 시집으로 우리 시의 위상을 세계적 수준으로 극대화시켰다는 평을 듣고 있다. 특히 이번 시집에서는 이길원 시인의 작품의 제재에 따라 풍자(諷刺)와 용사(用事), 그리고 직설과 함축 등 다양한 시적 기교를 적절하게 활용하고 있는데 원숙한 시적 경지와 인간답게 살기 위한 소중한 지남(指南)을 동시에 읽을 수 있다.