{"product_id":"the-three-way-tavern-selected-poems-paperback","title":"The Three Way Tavern: Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eUn Ko\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eClare You\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eRichard Silberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKo Un, the preeminent Korean poet of the twentieth century, embraces Buddhism with the versatility of a master Taoist sage. A beloved cultural figure who has helped shape contemporary Korean literature, Ko Un is also a novelist, literary critic, ex-monk, former dissident, and four-time political prisoner. His verse--vivid, unsettling, down-to-earth, and deeply moving--ranges from the short lyric to the vast epic and draws from a poetic reservoir filled with memories and experiences ranging over seventy years of South Korea's tumultuous history from the Japanese occupation to the Korean war to democracy. This collection, an essential sampling of his poems from the last decade of the twentieth century, offers in deft translation, as lively and demotic as the original, the off-beat humor, mystery, and mythic power of his work for a wide audience of English-speaking readers. It showcases the work of a man whom Allen Ginsberg has called \"a magnificent poet, a combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian,\" who Gary Snyder has said is \"a real-world poet!\" who \"outfoxes the Old Masters and the young poets both,\" and who Lawrence Ferlinghetti has described as \"no doubt the greatest living Korean Zen poet today.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems have magic.--Willis Barnstone, author of \u003ci\u003eSweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ko Un's work springs from a passionate dedication to the task of making whole again the narratives of the disrupted lives of Korea's people. No one has done more for what is coming gradually but ever more clearly to be recognized as Korea's literature of the twenty-first century.\"--David McCann, Director of the Korea Institute at Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.\"--Robert Hass\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKo Un\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond Self: 108 Korean Zen Poems and The Sound of My Waves: Selected Poems of Ko Un\u003c\/i\u003e as well as more than 100 volumes of poetry, short stories, fiction, criticism, essays, and children's literature, many of which have been best-sellers. His many awards include the Korean Literary Writers Award, Manhae Literary Award, and the Daesan Literary Award. Ko Un was Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University. \u003cb\u003eClare You\u003c\/b\u003e, Chair, Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley, has received the Korean National Silver Medal of Culture, and is author of two language textbooks including \u003ci\u003eCollege Korean\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eRichard Silberg\u003c\/b\u003e, associate editor of \u003ci\u003ePoetry Flash, \u003c\/i\u003e is author of five books of poetry and the book of essays \u003ci\u003eReading the Sphere\u003c\/i\u003e. You and Silberg have also co-translated the poems of Oh Sae-Young.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 8.01 x 6.13 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 17, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960249475269,"sku":"9780520246133","price":53.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/Hba1SVkPZL9780520246133.webp?v=1773442465","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-three-way-tavern-selected-poems-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}