Review of The Lantern and the Night Moths for Exchanges
My review of The Lantern and the Night Moths for Exchanges, a journal of literary translation.
Poetry
Records of homosexuality in premodern Korea
Who could their emulation of / the courtly love infringe?
[Review] The Lantern and the Night Moths
A remarkable new collection of translated Chinese poetry and original essays by the translator.
The Crimes of the Cat (責猫)
Whose dereliction is it, pray / that mice run mad and wild?
Delightful Spring Night Rain
It trails the wind, comes stealing in at night / Bedews all things with thin and soundless threads.
We Part as Friends
When on this ground we once do say farewell, / Alone, far-flung, we’ll tread a thousand miles.
Crystal stream from verdant mount
Translation of a famous sijo from Chosun-era poet Hwang Jinyi
The Ballad of Mulan
The long, grim cloak of war do I cast off / The skirt of girlhood I put on with love.
Laughing Alone (獨笑)
This is but how the world goes all the time / Alone I laugh, and none do understand!
Wind Blows Through the Bamboo Sparse (風來疎竹)
Though wind blows through the bamboo sparse / When it has passed the wood does not the sound retain.