A Multicultural Song that I Sing Alone
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A Multicultural song that I sing alone. Climbing to the top of the mountain of Griffith Park, Singing a song that a long, long time ago might have been sung and disappeared. The life and stories that From the opening world, There might exist a little microorganism floating in the water With bright sunshine that Has to move to another place. And roaring lions and zebra herd’s voices in the savanna. And different flowers’ love stories. Songs from long time ago, the ancient history of the human world, From ancient Greek city states and Roman civilization and European bravery, Asia, Africa and the Americas, Many ancient states’ peoples’ vivid lives. Like Korea’s ancient state, Gaya’s immigrants went to Silla ancient country Like a small stream flowing into a river. Songs for those exertions, sweating and bleeding from Africa, Europe to America for landing and Passing across the Atlantic Ocean. Like a sunflower turning its head to the sun. After a seed is buried in the ground The environment of the sprout is no good, The little sprout has to cry a lot, And wishes to move to an another place. I am singing a song of the long, long wandering, and bleeding Shining beauty and sad spring songs, The endless songs that are never enough to sing and sing And singing but disappearing, Lost nomadic songs. Multiculturalism Thou permanence, and Endless flowing river, And long journey songs.
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She is a serious poet who is writing with wit, dedication and thoughtfulness. I admire greatly her wonderful skills with language, dance and culture. She in-deed brings many things of beauty to the world and that is everyone’s good fortune. - Laurie Ramey. Poet, Professor and Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Director, Cal State Los Angeles. With lyricism and a chord of ontological idealism, the book, A Multicultural Song that I Sing Alone releases the hopeful poetry drastically to the readers of the world with all kinds of enthusiasms and dreams, not only affecting and encour-aging but also securing endless beauty. In her writing, she absorbs many artistic facts and expresses into her poetic field ambitiously and positively with a refined mind, a pure image and sincere language. - Tae Ho Kim, Literature Critic, from his Critical Essays In here, I spread the seeds of multicultural love, peace, dance and songs. From Asia to the whole world, from the origin of human history to today, from little things to great things, visible, and invisible, looking for the gold vein of under-ground in languages, picking well ripened fruits, living as a fisherman on this land is very fun. Multiculturalism might be the ideal of human pursuits, as hu-mans are not just single celled and have not just one sense of taste. Autumn times come down slightly, seducing the green climax of summer and color of nature. The sky gets dark. Maybe the weather will change. - Poet’s Epilogue –
About the Author
Bo Kyung Kim Poet, Peace dancer, Former music teacher. The author’s original name is Soon Sil Kim. Author was born in Jeju in 1961, in South Korea, graduated from the Jeju National University’s music department, became a music teacher, and taught music in a public junior high school in Jeju, Korea. After getting married and emigrating to the U.S., she taught all kinds of people from different racial backgrounds Korean traditional women’s group dance, named Ganggangsuwollae. This dance was passed down from ancient societies, meant to prevent divorce and pursuing mult-racial harmony and unification, as the author taught in communities, schools, churches of Michigan, Ohio, and California. And she also performed many solo dances to dedicate to war victims, using ancient Korean dances, sublimating it to peace dances, especially, one particular dance for the U.S. Civil War, which is performed in many places. She has also written many peace songs. In order to learn more about the U.S., she graduated from West Los Angeles College in liberal arts, and graduated with a second bachelor’s in Political Science from Cal State Los Angeles. In 1995, she received the New Poet Prize from the Korean literature magazine “Munyesajo.” She has published two books, and three Korean poetry books are in currently in the process of publication. Now, she is living in South Pasadena, California.