Lee Gil-won Poems
Lee Gil-won, Poet
Chapter 1 : COURTESY TO HOME
Courtesy to Home
Mask
Life
Spring Water
Morning Violet
Wife
Circular Route 1
Circular Route 2
To a Cocoon
Mother¡¯s Sunset
The Beggars¡¯ Table
My Cousin¡¯s Wife
The Way Home
Practicing Periods
Chapter 2 : HYENA
From the Top of a Hill
Hyena
Fugitive 2
Making Sugar-coated Pills
Flower Heart
Desiccated Heart
In That Place
Funeral Portrait
This One Year
Path 1: Snail
Playing Yut
Let¡¯s Just Look at the Sky
Removing Moles
The Land-Grabbing Game
Chapter 3 : DRAWING GOD
At a Mountain Lodge in Pokjang-ni
Drawing God
If I Stop my Blood from Circulating
Dear Friend
In the Sinchon Boarding House
As the Sun Sets over Sinjin Island
Magnolia February
On Seonyu Island
Azalea
Camellia
The Pine Tree on Mt Bukhan
Lowering the Coffin
Word 6 : Thorns
Word 7 : Forgi...veness
Chapter 4 : BECAUSE OF A DEAD BUTTERFLY
Dokdo
If the First Button had been fastened wrong
The Letter Stuck on a Barbed-Wire Fence
Becoming a Tree One Morning
To Be Alive
In the Laboratory
Because of a Dead Butterfly
The Water Deer
Butterfly
The Moranbong Circus
The Yodeok Story
The Defector Poet
The Road to Sichuan
Conversation / Lee Gil-won - WST
Introduction
1944 Born in Cheongju 1962 Graduated from Cheongju High School 1970 Graduated from Yonsei University, Seoul 1977 Worked as Chief Editor at Jubu Saeng-hwal. Resigned from the post after being indicted for his writings poem in the late period of Yushin. 2009~2013 President of Korean PEN 2010~ Board Member of PEN International 2011 Established North Korean Writers in Exile PEN Centre 2012(September) Host of the 78th PEN International Congress Publication: Hahoe Mask Self-Portrait, Meditations on Ginko Nuts, Sitting on an Eggshell, One Morning as a Tree, Haeiri Poems, Sunset Glow Poems of Lee Gil-won, Sunset Glow La riviere du crepuscule Napfenypalast Literary Award: The Cheonsangbyeong Poetry Award (2003) The Yoondongju Literary Award (2007) The Commendation for Development of Korean Culture and Arts (2009)