Posted : 2021-01-17 14:30 By Kwon Mee-yoo
Poet Choi Jeong-ryePoet Choi Jeong-rye passed away Saturday at the age of 66. Known as one of Korea s most exacting and innovative poets, Choi wrote prose poems drawing strange qualities out of everyday experiences.
The poet was diagnosed with a rare blood disease last summer and died from cerebral hemorrhage while fighting the disease.
Born in 1955 in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, Choi studied Korean poetry at Korea University and earned her doctoral degree there.
She made her literary debut through Hyeondae-sihak (Contemporary Poetics) magazine in 1990 and published poetry collections such as A Forest of Bamboo in My Ear (1994), Tigers in the Sunlight (2001), Crimson Field (2001), Lebanese Emotion (2006), Kangaroo is Kangaroo I am I (2011) and Ditch is Dragon s Hometown (2015).