Flowers of a Moment

"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 trov 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 activismconfronting 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"Un, Ko is the author of 'Flowers of a Moment', published 2006 under ISBN 9781929918881 and ISBN 1929918887.