Request Line at Noon

Poems

By Lee Jangwook
Translated by Sun Kim & Tsering Wangmo

Subjects: Poetry, Korean Studies
Imprint: Distribution Partners
Paperback : 9781930337879, 68 pages, February 2016

Table of contents

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

A collection of poems by the South Korean poet Lee Jangwook.

Description

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.