Poetry From the November 2005 issue: Seoul Searching

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Lee Seong-BokLee Seong-Bok

Lee Seong-Bok has published five books of poetry since his first collection in 1980, including his latest, Ah! Mouthless Things (2003). He is the recipient of the Kim Sooyoung Literary Award and the Sowol Poetry Award. Lee teaches creative writing and French literature at Keimyung University.

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Translated from KoreanKorean by Eun-Gwi ChungEun-Gwi Chung and by Myung Mi KimMyung Mi Kim

Eun-Gwi Chung is a poet and translator who, together with Myung Mi Kim, was named this year's recipient of the Daesan Foundation grant for their translation of Lee Seong-Bok's collection Ah! Mouthless Things. She currently teaches English at Seoul National University and received her Ph.D. in the Poetics Program at SUNY-Buffalo.

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Myung Mi Kim's books of poems include Commons (University of California Press), DURA (Sun & Moon), The Bounty (Chax Press), and Under Flag, winner of the Multicultural Publisher's Exchange Award (Kelsey St. Press). Anthology appearances in Asian-American Literature: An Anthology, Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women,/i>, Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry, Primary Trouble: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry and other collections. Honors include a residency at Djerassi Resident Artists Program and awards from The Fund for Poetry. She is Professor of English at SUNY-Buffalo.