{"product_id":"9780231542432","title":"For Nirvana: 108 Zen Sijo Poems","description":"Cho Oh-Hyun was born in Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province, Korea and has lived in retreat in the mountains since becoming a novice monk at the age of seven. Writing under the Buddhist name Musan, he has composed hundreds of poems in seclusion, many in the \u003ci\u003esijo\u003c\/i\u003e form, a relatively fixed syllabic style similar to Japanese \u003ci\u003ehaiku\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003etanka\u003c\/i\u003e. This collection of 108 Zen \u003ci\u003esijo\u003c\/i\u003e poems (108 representing the number of \u003ci\u003eklesas\u003c\/i\u003e, or “defilements,” one must overcome to attain enlightenment) features beautiful examples of Cho Oh-Hyun’s award-winning work and the expressive possibilities of sijo. These transfixing poems play with traditional religious and metaphysical themes and include a number of “story” sijo poems, a longer, less traditional style that is one of Cho Oh-Hyun’s major innovations. An introduction by Kwon Youngmin, emeritus professor at Seoul National University and a major scholar of sijo, supplies a contextualizing introduction.","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120412705008,"sku":"9780231542432","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780231542432_p0.jpg?v=1763679612","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780231542432","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}