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  • Flowers of a Moment

    by Ko Un ...
    Translated by Brother Anthony, Young-moo Kim, Gary Gach ...
    Series series
    “Bodhisattva of Korean poetry, exuberant, demotic, abundant, obsessed with poetic creation . . . Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian.”—Allen Ginsberg"Korea's greatest living Zen poet."—Lawrence FerlinghettiFlowers of a Moment is a treasure trove of more than 180 brief poems by a major world poet at the apex of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • First Person Sorrowful

    by Ko Un ...
    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.' When a writer has published as much as Ko Un has in the course of more than fifty years of writing, it is hard to know where to begin, what to translate. For this ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Maninbo

    Peace & War

    by Ko Un ...
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    by Yun Dong-ju, Kyung-nyun Kim Richards, Steffen R. Richards ...
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  • Nothing to Envy

    Ordinary Lives in North Korea

    by Barbara Demick ...
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  • Wild Swans

    Three Daughters of China

    by Jung Chang ...
    The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an ... Read more

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  • Tintin in the Land of Fervour

    by Alain Bernard Marchand ...
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  • Three Japanese Short Stories

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kafu Nagai, Chiyo Uno ...
    Series series Penguin Modern
    'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!'Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international ... Read more

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    by William Elliot Griffis ...
    A Brief introduction to Japanese Art and Symbols written in the late nineteenth century by the well known American orientalist. ... Read more

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  • The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry

    Edited by David McCann ...
    Korea's modern poetry is filled with many different voices and styles, subjects and views, moves and countermoves, yet it still remains relatively unknown outside of Korea itself. This is in part because the Korean language, a rich medium for poetry, has been ranked among the most difficult for English speakers to learn. The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry is the only up-to-date ... Read more

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  • The Aquariums of Pyongyang

    Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

    by Chol-hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot ...
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  • A Smile in the Mind's Eye

    An Adventure into Zen Philosophy

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    The "virtuoso" New York Times –bestselling author's memoir of his spiritual journey with famed Taoist philosopher Jolan Chang ( The New York Times ).Beginning with their first meeting over lunch at Lawrence Durrell's Provencal home, Durrell and Jolan Chang—renowned Taoist philosopher and expert on Eastern sexuality—developed an enduring relationship based on mutual spiritual expl... ... Read more

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