deals with agriculture, and criticizes the anthropocentricism that has ruined human history. In ( Imperial Hotel), he states that today's world is a "Jeguk" (empire). To resist through literature against such dystopia, he dug into his memories for things that awakened his emotions. As such, his subject matter has changed little by little, but Yi Munjae's poetry has always had colorful imagery and unique poetic language. To him, they were tools that could newly lift up emotions in a materialistic world where things of mental and emotional nature are dying out. To sum up, he is a poet that has been healing the wounds of a dystopian world through metaphor. Works ( When I Take Off My Wet Shoe and Show It to the Sun) ( The Backwoods of the Mind) ( The Spring Going to the Ocean), Munhak21, 1999. ( From Mirinae Hill), Pulipmunhak, 2003. ( Imperial Hotel), Munhakdongne, 2004. ( Where Starlight Pours In), Pulipmunhak, 2005. ( Here Right Now is the Very Front), Munhakdongne, 2014. Awards 1995 5th Kimdaljin Literature Prize 1999 4th Poetry and Poetics Award for Young Poets, 2002 17th Sowol Poetry Prize 2005 5th Ji Hoon Literature Award 2007 7th Nojak Literature Prize Further reading Ha Jae-bong, “Remembering Lee Moon-jae”, Lyric Poetry and Poetics, 1995 Hwang Hyeon, “A Land of Loss, Finding Life’s Truth”, Literary Criticism Today, 1999 References External links The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Korean Literature 1959 births Living people Academic staff of Kyung Hee University South Korean male poets 21st-century South Korean poets 21st-century male writers