Lee Young-Kwang is a professor of creative writing and media studies at Korea University. He has published four collections of poetry; in 2011 All the Evening Wishes won the prestigious Mi-Dang literature award. Other awards include the Roe-Jak Prize (2008) and Ji-Hoon Prize for Literature (2011).
Image courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project
as if a drunken body carried by handcart placed in a comfortable room, the coffinis now being lowered
sutra engraved on the lidthough th…