Maninbo

Ko Un has long been a living legend in Korea, both as a poet and as a person. Allen Ginsberg once wrote, ''Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian.'' Maninbo (Ten Thousand Lives) is the title of a remarkable collection of poems by Ko Un, filling thirty volumes, a total of 4001 poems containing the names of 5600 pe...