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    Love is the Pain of Feverish Flowers
    Love is the Pain of Feverish Flowers
    Love is the Pain of Feverish Flowers
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    Love is the Pain of Feverish Flowers

    By Kwon Cheonhak

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    The poems in this collection are located between a lost world and today’s modernity, poised between celebration and lamentation, as icons of loss and yearning. The reader is carried into unfamiliar spaces of scenery and also of language, as the translators retain echoes of the Korean originals, intent on transmitting each poet’s vision of an unfamiliar other place to readers who are eager to be transported.
    - Brother Anthony, literary translator and professor emeritus of Sokang University
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeoul Selection
    Release dateMar 2, 2016
    ISBN9781624120657
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      The book includes a thought-provoking and intense collection of poetry that explores the many facets of love. The author's unique style of writing is both melancholic and beautiful, making each poem a masterpiece in its own right. Highly recommended for poetry enthusiasts.

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