Request Line at Noon: Poems

by Jang-wook Lee, Sun Kim (Translation), Tsering Wangmo (Translation)

Born in Seoul, Korea, Lee Jangwook majored in Russian literature at Korea University. He has worked as an editor and also as a professor of creative writing at Chosun University in Korea. Lee began his writing career in earnest in 1994 when a series of his poems won the new writer's award in the poetry division of the literary journal Contemporary Literature . Lee has published two collections of poetry in Korea, Sand Mountain in My Sleep and Hopeful Songs at Noon , as well as a novel, Cheerful Devils of Callot . In addition to strictly literary works, he has written two collections of literary criticism, My Gloomy Modern Boy and Revolution and Russian Poetry and Its Aesthetics .

Genres: Poetry

68 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2016

About the author

Jang-wook LEE (이장욱) has authored two novels, Stranger than Paradise and Delightful Devils of Callot; two short story collections, King of Confessions and Everything But a Giraffe; four volumes of poetry, including The Mountain of Sand in My Sleep; and a volume of critical essays, Revolution and Modernism.