Sincere thanks are due to Pak Kidawk, Han Kyongshim and Katherine Lee for unstinting help in preparing the manuscript.
Acknowledgment is made of the support of the Korean Literature Translation Institute in making and publishing these translations.
Poems in this collection have previously appeared in Tilting the Jar, Spilling the Moon (Dedalus 1993), The Book of Korean Shijo (Harvard 2002), Korea Herald, Korea Times, Korea Journal, and Koreana.