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Article: 'Grass' Forms `Woods of Words' on Web.
- Article from:
- Korea Times (Seoul, Korea)
- Article date:
- November 30, 2000
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"Grass" by Kim Soo-yung, one of the most influential poems in contemporary Korean poetry, has now proliferated into lush "woods of words" on the Web (www.eos.mct.go.kr).
The e-literature project of the Culture-Tourism Ministry called the "Dawn of Language" started in April, Kim's "Grass" has grown into 103,362 pages of poems, as of yesterday, literally forming giant woods of verses.
A total of 570, including 156 professional writers, joined the Grass- inspired sequential writing in the basic motif of Kim's Grass.
The seed of the woods of words was the opening line of Grass, "Puri numnunda (Grass Lie Down)." On the basis of the curt line, 48 ...