The Poet, by Yi Munyol

Translation of a 1992 novel about a 19th century Korean poet. [Publishers Weekly review:] The first novel by leading South Korean writer Yi Mun-yol to be published in the West in English, this moving, luminous story is based on the life of Kim Pyong-yon (1807-1863), a bamboo-hatted vagabond poet. Though born to an upper-class Seoul family, Kim was forced to live as an outcast as punishment for a