Korean Poet Reveals Nostalgia for Homeland

By Chung Ah-young

Staff Reporter

Founding president of the Washington based Korean Poets and Writers Group, Choi Yearn-hong has released a new poetry book ``Moon of New York'' in English. This follows his latest poetry book, ``Autumn Vocabularies'' published in 1990.

The poetry collection vividly describes the emotions and pathos of the author's Korean-American life from 1968 when he went to Indiana University as a foreign student to his life today as a retired college professor after many years of teaching in the United States and Korea.

In his introduction, he says that his poems are ``basically his own translations from his poems in Korean into English. There may be some loss in translation, but there should