Those aforementioned poems, A Boat and Today, appear in a collection whose title poem reads "Wake up / understanding is a joy /
One of this author's poems concludes "In the twilight, smoke from a fire cooking supper / rises from only very few houses" and describes figures who "lovingly share a drink" and whose "words 'please, could you give' are scarcely audible".  In addition to Beggars: Husband and Wife, this man states "I keep you there / on the horizon of my heart" in a poem which declares the titular object "of no return departs" and "travels between you and me", and in another poem he asserts "We can't sink into our graves yet" and repeats the line "We are alive / as the snow flurries".  One novel by this author traces fifty-three encounters between gurus in the form of people, animals, and supernatural creatures and a monk who attains bodhisattva status, Sudhana.  Those aforementioned poems, A Boat and Today, appear in a collection whose title poem reads "Wake up / understanding is a joy / There can be no sadness / said the rainy road / when I looked out after three drinks" at the titular location.  FTP, name this author of Little Pilgrim, Ten Thousand Lives, and The Three Way Tavern, a noted poet from South Korea.
One of this author's poems concludes "In the twilight, smoke from a fire cooking supper / rises from only very few houses" and describes figures who "lovingly share a drink" and whose "words 'please, could you give' are scarcely audible".  
Ko Un