A ground-breaking retrospective of this major Korean writer of the modernist era, presented in English by award-winning poets and translators.

Yi Sang (1920-1937) was a painter, architect, poet and writer of 1930s Korea, when Korean peninsula was under Japanese colonial rule. Yi Sang wrote and published in both Korean and Japanese until his early death from tuberculosis at the age of 27, after imprisonment by Japanese police for thought crimes in Tokyo. His work shows innovative engagement with European modernism, especially that of Surrealism and Dada. He is considered one of the most experimental writers of Korean modernism.

Yi Sang: A Timeline (by Jack Jung)
Poem No. 1
Poems No. 4 & 5
Poems
translated from the Korean by Jack Jung
I
Bird's Eye View
Poem 1
Poem 2
Poem 3
Poem 4
Poem 5
Poem 6
Poem 7
Poem 8
Poem 9
Poem 10
Poem 11
Poem 12
Poem 13
Poem 14
Flowering Tree
This Kind of Poetry
1933, 6, 1
Mirror
Common Anniversary
Poem 15
II
* Titled * For * So * Yong *
Decorum
Paper Tombstone
Paper Tombstone-The Missing Wife-
Fortunetelling
Brazier
Mornings
Family
Fortunetelling
Path
III
Street Outside Street
Clear Mirror
Critical Conditions
¿Ban
¿Pursuit
¿Drowning
¿Cliff
¿White Painting
¿Lineage
¿Location
¿Prostitution
¿Lifetime
¿Innards
¿Blood Relation
¿Self-Portrait
I WED A TOY BRIDE
IV
Paradise Lost
Girl
Paragraphs on Blood Relations
Paradise Lost
Face Mirror
Moon Wound
Yi Sang's cover design of
Chosun and Architecture magazine
Reproductions of poems in Japanese: "Architecture Infinite Hexagon: Diagnosis 0:1" and "Architecture Infinite Hexagon: 22 years"
Poems
translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu
Introduction to the Japanese Poems of Yi Sang (by Sawako Nakayasu)
from Abnormal Reversible Reaction
¿Abnormal Reversible Reaction
¿Fragment Scenery
¿ ¿'s Games
¿ Beard
¿Hunger
from Bird's Eye View
¿Two People-1-
¿Two People-2-
¿LE URINE
¿Movement
from Solid Angle Blueprint
¿Memorandum on the Line 1
¿Memorandum on the Line 2
¿Memorandum on the Line 3
¿Memorandum on the Line 4
¿Memorandum on the Line 5
¿Memorandum on the Line 6
¿Memorandum on the Line 7
from Architecture Infinite Six-Sided Figure
¿AU MAGASIN DE NOUVEAUTES
¿Diagnosis 0:1
Yi Sang with writer Pak T'ae-won and poet Kim So-un
Essays
translated from the Korean by Jack Jung
A Journey into the Mountain Village
Ennui
After Sickbed
Sad Story
A Letter to My Sister
Tokyo
notes
Stories
translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi and Joyelle Mc
Sweeney
Yi Sang's House (by Don Mee Choi)
Page from "Spider&Spider
Meet
Pigs" with original spacing in Korean and English
Spider&Spider
Meet
Pigs
notes
True Story-Lost Flower
notes
Afterword: Thirteen for Yi Sang, for Arachne (by Joyelle Mc
Sweeney)
Yi Sang Collage (by Don Mee Choi)
Acknowledgments