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A collection of poems by the South Korean poet Lee Jangwook.
Request Line at Noon is a poetry collection that draws on the author's observational acuity and brings together reflections on the meaning of everyday life in modern times.
From Request Line at Noon
"We were friendly,
Inconsiderate.
Everyone moved forward to an end.
You lost your love
And I skipped rope.
The surging music
At the minimum altitude of my soul;
The music from the 'Request Line at Noon'
We were always
Flowing away regularly…."
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 Modernism: Russian Poetry and Its Aesthetics.
Wires
From Many Worlds
Infighter
Zombie Walking
Decision
How Odd
Perfect Night
Happy New Year
Imbalanced Thought
Request Line at Noon
The Nineteenth Century’s Rain
Giraffe’s Love
Noises
Let Us Meet in Autumn
In a Snowy Village
A Precise Question
Ways of Greeting in Africa
The Baseball Park Ten Years Later
A Note on Summer Impressions in Winter
Travelers
Earthquake
Chun-ja
You and I, As Flowers
Out of Orbit
Small Talk
Fire
Phytogenic
Perhaps the Devil
Meeting Plaza
Misunderstanding
Mannequin
Like Dust
Ventriloquist
The Dirty Street
Through the Tollgate with the Monster
Trace
Disappearance
We Shall Drink Chinese Alcohol Tomorrow
Bullfighting
Bullfighting at Dusk
Power of Stairs
Personal Life
Addiction
Matters
A Geometrical Composition
Run, Bus, Run
Knife
Today As Well the Night
Suspect
Interview with an Alien
Your Active Boundary
Today’s Weather
My Gloomy Modern Boy
Spread
The Secrets of Birds