Flowers of a Moment

Name: Flowers of a Moment
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ISBN: 9781929918874

ISBN-10: 1929918879

ISBN-13: 9781929918874

Edition: 2006

Authors: Ko Un, Brother Anthony, Young-Moo Kim, Gary Gach

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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…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited
Publication date: 11/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 140
Size: 10.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

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. Green Integer published selections from Ten Thousand Lives to great acclaim in 2005.