Book record
Himalaya Poems
Ko Un
Translated from Korean by Brother Anthony of Taizé
Himalaya Poems, by Ko Un and translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé, is a Korean poetry volume built around travel, attention, and the spiritual scale of landscape. The Himalayas can easily become a symbol too large to be useful, but Ko Un’s best poems often find power in the small human moment placed against vastness. I would read this book as a travelogue of breath and perception rather than simply a record of mountains. The title invites altitude, but the poems may matter most when they return to the body: walking, seeing, tiring, listening, continuing. Brother Anthony’s translation gives the English reader a clear path into Ko Un’s meditative directness. This is a book for readers who want quiet, movement, and a sense of the world turning underfoot.
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Green Integer
- Language
- Korean
- Country
- South Korea
- ISBN
- 9781557134127