Ten Thousand Lives (Maninbo): The new English translation of selections from Ko Un’s masterwork

Poetry Guide Margery Snyder introduces Ten Thousand Lives, a selection of poem-portraits from the first 10 volumes of Ko Un’s vast poetic project: to remember & depict the faces & lives of all the people he has ever known or known of. Translated from Korean to English by Brother Anthony of Taizé, Young-moo Kim & Gary Gach, and with an introduction by Robert Hass, it’s “a lovely small-format book that has a beautiful compact weight in the reader’s hand, suited to be thumbed through again & again, its characters echoing & reflecting in the reader’s mind.”

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