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Back to Heaven
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These poems by "the happiest man in the world" are full of light though written in dark times. Ch'ôn had the art of seeing the beauty of life beyond all the pain, and of putting it into the music of words. Recently, many young Koreans have discovered in these poems and in the poet's life the innocence and honesty they look for in vain in modern society. His poverty and his
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Hardcover, 122 pages
Published
1995
by United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
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A beautiful collection of brief, heartful poems. I especially liked the afterword as well as the poems "Next" and "Back to Heaven."
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