Mother to Myself Ebook - Printed in Korean.

Mother to Myself (나는 나의 어머니가되어): A Collection of poems in Korean (Prunsasan Press, 2015) selected for one of 25 reading lists for the “5th Korean Diaspora Literature Essay Contest” by LIT Korea (The Literature Translation Institute of Korea) in 2021.

Mother to Myself - Portrays the need for nurturing and connecting as felt through a young woman's heart who is propelled between two cultures

Tanya Ko-captures in these spare, elegant poems, a world

of cruelty, suffering and survival.

Here is beauty juxtaposed with pain so deep it's almost

impossible to put into words. And yet this fine poet does just

that. She breaks our hearts with the truth and astonishes us

with her compassion."

Ellen Bass

타냐 고(고현혜)씨의 시는 여운과 기품속에 고난과 잔혹함, 그리고 생

존의세계를담아내고있다. 아름다움은도무지형언할수없이깊은

고통과 대조된다. 그녀같이 뛰어난 시인만이 할 수 있는 일이다. 그

녀가 드러내는 실체에 우리 마음은 비통해지고 그녀만의 따뜻한 감성

은 우리를 놀라게 한다.

엘렌 베스 (Ellen Bass)

Tanya Ko Hong’s poems in Mother to myself are blooming red in the desert with a burning consciousness of displacement. Kim has faith in Ko’s poetry, her voice gives voices to the voiceless, silent women immigrants and the diaspora that speaks the truth in such a unique and authentic poesy. This is also a poem that examines Korean immigrant history in the early 1980's. She shows the sorrow of seperations, adopting new cultures, and the process of becoming a citizen. This book has an impact as a bridge to both generations between families and opens the door for foreigners to understand immigrants' lives.

-Kim-Seung-hee, poet, professor

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