CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTORY POEM

Song of Orchid Hill

MANIPULATING THE CHARACTERS

Song of Right and Wrong

Up on the Roof

Making Fun of a Monk and a Scholar

Deconstructing the Characters

Fun Poem

Bamboo Poem

Lost Title

Making Fun of Wife and Concubine

Not Keeping the Rhyme

Brazier

NATURAL HARMONY

The Diamond Mountains

Going Into the Diamond Mountains

Diamond Mountains Scene

In the Diamond Mountains

Song of the White Gull

Hamgwallyŏng

The Peak of Nine Month (September) Mountain

Struggling in a Roadside Booth

Snow

Millstone

Summer Clouds

Composed Extempore: Self Reflection

Thoughts of Home

Cold Plum in the Snow

OBJECTS OF SATIRE

Under Twenty Elms

Blue Mountains Are Upside Down in the Water

A Heartless Culture

Kwi-nak-tang

Excoriating the Yuns

Kilchu Myŏngchŏn

Saengwŏn Wŏn

A Kaesŏng Man Drove a Wayfarer Away

Lazy Wife

A Very Sleepy Wife

Chinsa Kim of Okku

Wŏndangni

Hwan'gap Feast

Poking Fun at Poetasters

Poem in Vulgar Language

Slovenly Wife

Making Fun of a Child Wearing a Horsehair Hat

Making Fun of a Man Wearing a Square Hat

LOVE POEMS

A Beauty

To Pity, a Kisaeng

Presented to a Kisaeng

Looking for Red Lotus Late at Night

First Seen Along the Road

Flowers Are Hard to Avoid

Joint Composition with a Kisaeng

Passing Hoeyang

PERSONAL POEMS

Looking at the Mirror

Lament

Singing of Self

Sung Spontaneously

Singing to My Shadow

Personal Hurt

SUNDRY ITEMS

Singing of My Rainhat

Piss Pot

INSECTS AND ANIMALS

Flea

Cat

Louse

Cat

Aged Ox

MISCELLANEOUS

Lies

Met the Rain: Spent the Night in a Farmhouse

An Old Man Makes Fun of Himself

An Old Man

The Master

Money

Awakening the World

Couplet

The Hunchback

Singing of Poverty

Granny

Funeral Streamer

Seeing a Beggar’s Body

SCATOLOGICAL POEMS

Abusing the Kongs

Sucking Milk: Three Songs

Execrating the School

BIBLIOGRAPHY