Singing Like a Cricket, Hooting Like an Owl: Selected Poems of Yi Kyu-Bo (Cornell East Asia Series; 78)

Kyu-Bo Yi, Kevin O'Rourke (Translator)

$19.95

Publication Date: March 31st, 2010

Publisher:

Cornell East Asia Series

ISBN:

9781885445780

Pages:

106

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Description

Kyu-bo Yi (1168-1241), the greatest of the classical Korean poets, was born into a very turbulent period of history, when the Koryo kingdom was threatened from the north by barbarians and from within by the ongoing struggle for supremacy among the various factions. His poems, confessional and transcendent, describe moments of personal illumination in the course of everyday life.

About the Author

Kyu-Bo Yi (1168-1241), the greatest of the classical Korean poets, was born into a very turbulent period of history, when the Koryo kingdom was threatened from the north by barbarians and from within by the ongoing struggle for supremacy among the various factions. His poems, confessional and transcendent, describe moments of personal illumination in the course of everyday life.