Poetry. Asian Studies. Translated from the Korean by Brother Anthony of Taizé, Young-moo Kim, and Gary Gach. With an introduction by Ko Un. Recognized as the greatest living Korean poet, Ko Un has produced a vast amount of poetry over the years, including the noted collection TEN THOUSAND LIVES, previously published by Green Integer. This new volume selects work from Ko Un's entire career to date. The most noted contemporary Korean poet, Ko Un has been nominated several times for the Nobel Prize for Literature and is recognized as one of the most important of living poets.
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Born in 1933 in a small rural village in Korea's North Cholla Province, Ko Un grew up in a Japanese-controlled land that was soon to experience the horrors of the Korean War. He became a Buddhist monk in 1952, and began writing in the late 1950s.
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