This new and selected brings together a dramatic sweep of poetry from one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s best-loved poet-critics. Four of Richard Silberg’s books are included here, beginning with his
"Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of mind. Mind is sometimes registered in Buddhist terms?Buddhist practice being part of Ko Un's background.
"'Dazzling strokes of falling stars in falling water. I want to write poems like that,' writes Moon Chung-hee. Thanks to Silberg and You, these poems dazzle bright in English. Here love is violent and
"These poems have magic."--Willis Barnstone, author of Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho"Ko Un's work springs from a passionate dedication to the task of making whole again the narratives of the disru
