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For Nirvana

About the E-Books

Title Sub
108 Zen Sijo Poems
Author
Oh-hyun Cho
Co-Author
-
Translator
Heinz I. Fenkl
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Published Year
2016
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Poetry > 21st century poetry

Original Title
For Nirvana
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9780231542432
Page
-
Series
OverDrive Read

About the Author

  • Cho Ohyun
  • Birth : 1932 ~ 2018
  • Occupation : Poet
  • First Name : Ohyun
  • Family Name : Cho
  • Korean Name : 조오현
  • ISNI : 0000000024790394
  • Works : 3
About the Original Work
  • For Nirvana
  • Author : Cho Ohyun et al
  • Published Year : -
  • English Title : For Nirvana
More About the Original Work
Descriptions -
  • English(English)

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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