In this long awaited full survey of the poetic writing of Korea's leading literary spokesperson, the translators have gathered poems from 42 years, representing numerous of the author's 135 books. As they note in their introduction, "Ko Un is...like a force of nature."
Born in 1933 in southwestern Korea, he grew up in a Japanese-controlled land that was soon to experience the horrors of the Korean War. In 1952 he became a Buddhist monk, and began writing in the late 1950s. Since that time, Ko has been recognized as one of the most notable of living Korean writers and has regularly been nominated and short-listed for the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1982 Ko Un published his Collected Poems in Korea.
Reference : Green Integer. "Songs for Tomorrow", https://www.greeninteger.com/book.cfm?-Ko-Un-Songs-for-Tomorrow-Poems-1960-2002-&BookID=261. accessed 27 Oct 2023.
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