Description: Long a cultural hero in Korea, Manhae--whose work can be compared to that of Rumi and even Pablo Neruda--is overdue his proper audience in the West. Beautifully packaged, the love poems in this collection will speak volumes to lovers and seekers everywhere.
Brief description: David R. McCann is the 2004 recipient of the Manhae Prize for Arts and Sciences, and Director of the Korea Insitute at Harvard University.
Review Quotes: "Manhae's deceptively simple ecstatic poems draw on a tradition that goes back thousands of years. Manhae joins to that tradition his Korean Buddhist sensibility and practice, and considerable technical skills, producing a suite of poems of striking originality."--Sam Hamill, founder of Poets Against the War and author of Dumb Luck