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Yi Won (Korean: 이원; born Yi Sang-Hyeob; 23 September 1962) is a great-grandson of Gojong of Korea and one of several who claim to be current head of the House of Yi. He worked as a general manager of Hyundai Home Shopping, a Hyundai Department Store Group company, until Prince Yi Ku died on 16 July 2005.
Yi Won is a leading voice in contemporary Korean poetry, combining wit and social criticism with formal and typographic experimentation. Learn about her life, works, and awards on the Poetry Foundation website.
Yi Won debuted in the pages of Segye-ui Munhak in 1992. Her poetry collections include When They Ruled the Earth, A Thousand Moons Rising Over the River of Yahoo!, The World’s Lightest ...
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Yi Won explores the blurred boundaries between the virtual and the real in her posthumanist poetry. Read a review of her new collection The World's Lightest Motorcycle, translated by E.J. Koh and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello.
Dec 6, 2023 · Yi Won debuted in the pages of Segye-ui Munhak in 1992. Her poetry collections include When They Ruled the Earth, A Thousand Moons Rising Over the River of Yahoo!, The World’s Lightest Motorcycle, The History of an Impossible Page, Let Love be Born, and I Am My Affectionate Zebra.
Yi Won is the author of six books of poetry and essays in Korean, and one in English, The World’s Lightest Motorcycle (2021). She explores themes of isolation, loneliness, death, and time in her avant-garde and lyrical poems.
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Yi Won ( 이원) is a South Korean avant-garde poet and essayist, born in 1968 in Gyeonggi-do. She studied Creative Writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts and earned her master’s degree at the Graduate School of Culture and Arts at Dongguk University.
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