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! Updated: 2024-12-17

  • Posted by Moonji Publishing co., Ltd. on 2024-12-17
  • Updated by on 2026-01-20

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Description 작품 소개

KI Hyung-Do’s world of poetry first came to light in the 1980s around when Korea was viewed by the preceding generation as having no meaningful future in store for them after the exposure of all the atrocities that had been committed. In the name of “death” his poems expressed the nightmarish reality within the context of the specificities of daily life. “Death”, as captured by a poet with a highly sensitive “self”, connotes the hopeless state in which the longing for utopia has been horrifically shattered into pieces. In Dark Leaf In The Mouth, which was KI Hyung-Do’s first and final anthology, the poet expresses the oppression embedded within everyday life and the psychology of terror in the form of a recollection. His poems unravel his melancholy adolescence and the absurd experiences he’s had in bizarre, yet warm and desperate, beautiful poetic verse.

KI Hyung-Do 기형도

Born in Yeonpyeong, Gyeonggi-do in 1960. He graduated from Yonsei University with a degree in political science and international relations. In 1984, he joined the Joongang Daily and worked as a reporter in the politics, culture, and editorial sections. He made his literary debut when his poem, “Fog” was chosen as the winner of the Dong-a Daily New Writer’s Contest in 1985, after which he kept on publishing original and strongly idiosyncratic poems. He died at the young age of 29 after publishing his only anthology of poems, Dark Leaf In A Mouth.

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