The Postman

Poetry. Asian American Studies. Translated from the Korean by Brother Anthony of Taize. Commentary by Lee Tae-Dong and Se-young Oh. "There are few modern Korean poets who have pursued change as ardently as Mun Dok-su has done. In his early days, he wrote Modernist poems engaged in the pursuit of ontological issues, under the influence of Yu Ch'i-hwan. But before and around the turn of the 21st century, as the spirit of the times were changing, he developed an interest in the environmental issues associated with the so-called DMZ and produced works that were deeply marked by postmodernism. Nowadays, however, refusing to be satisfied with that, he has chosen a method of composition deriving from modernism and has brought into the world a poem in cantos close to an epic, THE POSTMAN"--Lee Tae-Dong.