Letter of  resignation 

                      Choung, Shin-jae

         Trans. Won, Eung-Soon

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I have felt resignation in my ribs (bones).

The dream, fermented for 34 years comes down on a spire of the pointed proof,

Sticks to the stained glass drawn a scared picture,

The front yard of the church in spring, standing shyly over there,

And between a flower garden of poems, where haze is dozing,

The indigo sky of its bare face presses down a city,

And your ribs, looking at the field flowers

With the most honest dress on the world,

Approaching as a song passing through the vibrated throat

Are solid today.

It is like an iron wall, the resignation,

But that’s all enough, is once stepping out of its door.

The resignation of one thousand years’ kingdom ‘Shilla’,

If time passes by, also makes us empty our mind,

Hold your root upright, and your internal organs on the pillar of freedom.

You, the resignation, do as you like!

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​Debut: 《The Poetry》, Jan, 1983

Works: 2015 『On The Boundary Line Of Poetics』​ (Simunhaksa),etc

Awards:LiteraryPrizes;Prizes;Prize of the Literary Critic,s Association of Korea

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