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Ko Un

Green Integer, 2005

One long nitty-gritty planetary poem, amazing as such.
As Allen Ginsberg has remarked of this singular quasi-beat poetic mingling of cosmic perception and the ordinary life, Ko Un's Son poems are as "hard nuts to crack--yet many seem immediately nutty and empty at the same time." While in prison and thinking of the lives of all the people he knew, Ko Un decided he would write a poem about every person he had ever met. He would call this work Ten ...

Little Pilgrim: A Novel

2 reviews
Ko Un

Parallax Press, 2005

A Journey to Enlightenment
This achingly beautiful book, written by Korea's Poet Laureate Ko Un (it took him 23 years to write) is a fictionalization of the 39th volume of the Avatamsaka (Flower Garland) Sutra, sometimes separately known as the Gandavyuha Sutra. It recounts the journey of Sudhana, the Little Pilgrim, to seek knowledge from 53 different masters, starting with Manjushri, and ending with Samanthabadra. ...

Abiding Places: Korea South & North
Ko Un

Tupelo Press, 2006

In Abiding Places, Korean poet Ko Un transfigured his homeland in lovely, observant, and penetrating poems uniting ancient and modern, secular and spiritual, art and politics, South and North. When his former political cellmate Kim Dae-Jung became president of Korea in 1998, Ko Un because the first citizen from the South to be invited to tour the North. From that visit came this deceptively simple and deeply engaging book. Sunny Jung and ...

Flowers of a Moment (Lannan Translation Selection Series)
Ko Un

BOA Editions Ltd., 2006

"Bodhisattva of Korean poetry, exuberant, demotic, abundant, obsessed with poetic creation . . . Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian."-Allen Ginsberg " Korea 's greatest living Zen poet."- Lawrence Ferlinghetti Flowers of a Moment is a treasure ...

Beyond Self: 108 Korean Zen Poems

3 reviews
Un Ko

Parallax Press, 1997

Ko Un Delivers Excellent and Intriguing Poetry
Anyone interested in zen poetry ought to own this book. Ko Un writes about many different topics in clever, interesting, and intriguing poems.

The Three Way Tavern: Selected Poems

2 reviews
Ko Un

University of California Press, 2006

Ko On
I met Ko On and heard his work at the 2006 Geraldine Dodge Poetry Festival. Despite the language difference, Ko On's wit, intelligence, life experience, and talent, came through very clearly and he held his audiences enthralled. It was a privilege to hear him. Don't miss this book; it's a pleasure to read, though this poet has lived through times too terrible for most of us to imagine. As a ...