For Nirvana features exceptional examples of the poet Cho Oh-Hyun's
award-winning work. Cho Oh-Hyun was born in Miryang, South
Gyeongsang Province, Korea, and has lived in retreat in the
mountains since becoming a novice monk at the age of seven. Writing
under the Buddhist name Musan, he has composed hundreds of poems in
seclusion, many in the sijo style, a relatively fixed syllabic
poetic form similar to Japanese haiku and tanka. For Nirvana
contains 108 Zen sijo poems (108 representing the number of klesas,
or "defilements," that one must overcome to attain enlightenment).
These transfixing works play with traditional religious and
metaphysical themes and include a number of "story" sijo, a longer,
more personal style that is one of Cho Oh-Hyun's major innovations.
Kwon Youngmin, a leading scholar of sijo, provides a
contextualizing introduction, and in his afterword, Heinz Insu
Fenkl reflects on the unique challenges of translating the
collection.
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