First Person Sorrowful (Paperback)

Ko Un has long been a living legend in Korea, both as a poet and as a person. Allen Ginsberg once wrote, 'Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscenti, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian.' When a writer has published as much as Ko Un has in the course of more than fifty years of writing, it is hard to know where to begin, what to translate. For this collection, his translators have selected a hundred or so poems from the five collections published since the year 2002, collections acclaimed by Korean critics as bringing poetry to a new level of cosmic reference. Nothing shows more clearly his stature as a writer than the variety of themes and emotions found in his most recent work. Readers here have access for the first time to many of the poems Ko Un has produced in the 21st century, as he approaches his eightieth year, his energy and originality unabated. As Michael McLure wrote years ago: 'Ko Un's poetry has the old-fashionedness of a muddy rut on a country road after rain, and yet it is also as state-of-the-art as a DNA micro-chip.' That remains true today. "First Person Sorrowful" is Ko Un's first book to be published in the UK, and has an introduction by Sir Andrew Motion.

General

Imprint:	Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2012
First published:	June 2013
Authors:	Ko Un
Translators:	Anthony Taize • Lee Sang-Wha
Dimensions:	215 x 136 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	152
ISBN-13:	978-1-85224-953-3
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	Korean
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	1-85224-953-6
Barcode:	9781852249533

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