송경동 (SONG Kyung Dong)

SONG Kyung Dong (b. 1967) was born in Beolkyo, South Jeolla Province. His poetry would be one of the most honest, the voice of his life full of fighting and struggle. His poetry books include Sound Sleep (2006) and Answer to Trivial Questions (2009). He is well-known as the poet of the streets, poet of the workers, portraying the vivid scenes of fighting, the memory of failure and death, and the nature of heartless capital. Rooted in the concrete reality of workers, his poetic words draw the most tragic landscapes of our hard times.