The late poet Choi Jeong-rye, who wrote a specific story as a poem, was interviewing with Bonji in 2014. Hyukjae Kwon Photo Reporter
Poet Jeong-rye Choi passed away on the morning of the 16th. Age 66. Choi Si-in, who showed the world of prose poetry based on everyday life, received the Midang Literature Award in 2015, the Modern Literature Award (2007), the Baek Seok Literature Award (2012), and the Oh Janghwan Literature Award (2015).
‘Gaecheon-eun Dragon’s Hometown’, the winner of the Midang Literature Award, was a work that revealed the specialty of the deceased by twisting a specific story in a literary way and circling it. “Are you sorry for the dragon that has passed away from the stream? Do you miss it hard? A. Gaecheon has no idea, Gaecheon is just tossing around on the spot.” “One story goes to another story with a free association, and one image changes shape like the protagonist of the transformation story, and becomes a different image.” “It is a matter of living multiple lives at once, and multiple currents groaning here. It was a testimony.”
Poetry Choi gave new vitality to prose poems that were trapped in the formal norm of ‘a poem without rhyme and rhyme.’ The work that mixed up an extremely ordinary and unchanging life was intense. “Low fat milk, mackerel, rubber gloves… , She loads chore shopping items in the trunk of her car, and a friend from abroad makes a leisurely voice over international calls. While off guard, a man crashes into my car, and my friend doesn’t hang up the phone.” (‘Because her lips are warm and yours is cold’) Choi Si-in said in an interview with Bonji that “everyday is strong.” Explained the reason for writing specific poems.
The deceased was born in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do and graduated from Korea University’s Korean Literature Department and the same graduate school. In 1990, he began his career as 『Contemporary Poetry』 and wrote a collection of poems such as 『The Tang Bamboo Grove in My Ear』, and 『Kangaroo is a Kangaroo and I am Old. In the summer of last year, after visiting a hospital with high fever, he was diagnosed with’blood cell phagocytosis lymphocytosis’, a type of immunodeficiency disease, and started treatment with anticancer drugs. Even during the struggle, he tied his works together and published 『Light Net』 (Changbi) as his last collection of poetry last November.
Regarding the 7th collection of poetry, which was also commemorating the 30th anniversary of the entrance, the deceased said, “It includes allegory’s poems that speak here and there at the same time.” “I got 1 mg of pain reliever/ fell asleep/ lost snowy acid (omitted)/1 mg was too heavy/ 1 mg holding/it was difficult to climb the ice wall/ I wanted to throw away even 1 mg of it” (‘1 mg pain reliever ‘M). In his recommendation, literary critic In-Hwan Kim said, “In this collection of poetry, we can read the mystery of human beings that are not damaged by any crisis and ordeal.” It will be a dream. Jeong-rye Choi has made that dream come true,” he wrote.
In a conversation with the editor of “Lightnet,” who became his last work, the deceased said, “It has been six months since I was in and out of the hospital, and I met various people I had never known before. In addition, he replied, “I think it is my job to love people, whether through poetry or through anything.” The deceased died of a cerebral hemorrhage while fighting the disease. Sinchon Severance Hospital. The origin is 6:20 am on the 18th.
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