by: Ko Un

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 895.714
EAN: 9781929918881
ISBN: 1929918887
Label: BOA Editions Ltd.
Manufacturer: BOA Editions Ltd.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 140
Publication Date: November 01, 2006
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Sales Rank: 1041585
Studio: BOA Editions Ltd.

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'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 trove of more than 180 brief poems by a major world poet at the apex of his career. A four-time Nobel Prize nominee,Ko Un grew up in Korea during the Japanese occupation. During the Korean War, he was conscripted by the People's Army. In 1952, he became a Buddhist and lived a monastic life for ten years.

For his activism confronting South Korea's dictatorial military government, he was imprisoned and tortured. He has published more than one hundred volumes of poetry, essays, fiction, drama, and translations of Chinese poetry.



At sunset
a wish
to become a wolf beneath a fat full moon