A Korean Century: River and Fields

Author: Ku Sang
Translated by: Brother Anthony of Taizé
Publisher: Forest Books, 1991
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Over 100 poems of a spiritual nature. Born into a Catholic family in what is now North Korea, Ku Sang is one of South Korea’s leading poets. “”The poems display a rewarding blend of East and West, not only in religions (particularly Catholicism and Buddhism) but also in attitudes….A fine poet, well translated”” – World Literature Today.

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