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The current war is the most beautiful futurist poem. —F.T. Marinetti A gun laughing, because war itself is a poet. —O Chang-hwan This article examines the reception of European futurism in colonial Korea in the early-to- mid-1930s through the writings of Kim Ki-rim and O Chang-hwan, both of whom composed long modernist poems over the course of 1934 engaging with modern warfare and global imperialism—Kim’s “Weather Map” ( Kisangdo, p. 1935) and O’s “War” ( Chŏnjaeng, 1934, unpublished). My...
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