The Poet
Yi Mun-Yol
Barcode 9781529986112
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Release Date: 14/05/2026
Genre: Fiction
Label: Vintage Classics
Series: Brief Encounters
Language: English, Korean
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
The life of a poet becomes a parable of hunger, hope, and the price of beauty Yi Sang, born into poverty, dreams of becoming a poet. His gift with words leads him down a path of wandering, hunger, and rejection — yet also moments of transcendent vision. Drawing on the real life of nineteenth-century poet Kim Byeong-yeon, Yi Mun-yol creates a work that is at once historical fiction, fable, and a meditation on the burden of art itself.
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days