Gale
*Fiddling Immortal Strikes a Magic Note
*Plum Blossom – Kang Hŭian
*Immortal Comes to Dublin
*Resting at Shihu Inn – Yi Kyubo
*The Immortal Ku Sang
*Shame – Ku Sang
*The Immortal Cardinal Kim Suhwan
*Gentle into that Good Night – for Sr. Zita
14.AT THE CULTURAL COALFACE: IMMERSION, SUBMERSION? – TAKE YOUR PICK
*Let There Be Light
*This old sick heart – Kim Sujang
*The Circus Comes to Town
*Decade-in-the-Orient Men
*A Word for the Wise
*Episcopal Clout
*Outside the Confessional
*Greetings
*The Fortune Teller
*Episcopal Solicitude
*Ch’usŏk: The Harvest Moon Festival
*The One True Church
*Written on the Upper Storey of Yusŏng Post House – Yi Kyubo
*The Pain of it All
*At the Bishop’s Table
*Association of Images
*The Parish Priest Bamboozles the Local Gendarmerie
*Seoul Cabby Objects
*Lady of Perpetual Succour
*Marriage Tribunal
*Poshint’ang
*Poem of Flower Stone Pavilion – Yi Yulgok
*No Bones
*Early Morning Aggravation
*Priests Not Quite Forever
*Invitation
*Burying Mike Bransfield
*Passing (In Memory of Sean Quinn)
*Mystery
*Good Friday: After a Poem by an Old Master (In Memory of Phil Crosbie)
*Purest Celadon (In Memory of Hub Hayward)
*February 2008 (In Memory of Wally Nugent)
*Farewell to Jack Roche
*Death Song (Grieving for Noel Ryan)
*Granite Man (In Memory of Tommy Comerford)
*A Cold Eye (In Memory of Aidan Murray)
*Looking for the Cow – Han Yong’un
*All My Life
*Kyeshim-sa – Open the Heart Temple
*Savouring the Moment
*Chang’andong Chest
*Evening: Self Portrait – Cho Byunghwa
*Summer Clouds – Chŏng Chisang
*Night Rain on the Xiaoxiang – Yi Illo
*Antidote to Avarice
*Is a Little Learning a Dangerous Thing?
17.FOR THOSE OF US WITH LESS THAN IMMORTAL STATUS
*Spring Rain
*Silence
*Speaking My Mind in Sickness – Kim Shisŭp
*Ruffled Feathers
*Autumn night falls on the river – Prince Wŏlsan
*Ilsan Yangban Fails the Immortals’ Exam
*A night of wind and snow
*At the Closing of Kwandaeri
*Belch and a Half
*No Immortals in Pusan
*Sunrise
*Riyakha
*My Kingdom for a Phone
*Things Are Not Like They Used To Be
*Spring
*Reading the Paper
*What a Man!
*Moving House
*Rosslare Birds
*Kŭmgang San: The Diamond Mountains
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
MOST OF THE poems in this volume appeared previously in various collections: Tilting the Jar, Spilling the Moon (Dedalus, 1993); Singing Like a Cricket, Hooting Like an Owl (Cornell East Asia Program, 1995); Mirrored Minds: A Thousand Years of Korean Verse (Eastward Books, 2001; The Book of Korean Shijo (Harvard,
