Even Birds Leave the World: Selected Poems of Ji-Woo Hwang

Ji-woo Hwang’s poems describe a life governed by the inescapable reality that all hell can break loose at any time. In the early 1970s, he was arrested and tortured for his anti-government activities, but by the 1980s, he was leading the new wave of deconstructionist poetry which was part of the new “rhetoric of resistance” in Korean literature.