Poetry
A Small Museum of Trauma. 10 rooms.
Each collection is a different room. A different experiment inside the frame. All poetry. All on the wall. The frame never breaks — it explodes from within.
Recommended for Translation — 10 Collections
Room 1 — Base Camp
Catcalling (2018)
Violence, gender, diaspora.
The experiment: the language of violence inside poetry. English edition published by Open Letter Books (2021, translated by Soje). NYT review, PEN America longlist. 16 printings, 20,000+ copies in Korea.
English edition published · translated by Soje
Room 2 — Portable Museum
Letters, Obscene and Incomplete (2021)
All-typography. A museum you carry.
The experiment: typography inside poetry. Where conceptual art meets writing. 32 poems. 8 printings, 5,000+ copies.
Korean · 8 printings
Room 3 — Hell is Home
Home Sweet Home (2023)
Home as hell. Family violence, diaspora, immigration.
The experiment: fable-concept poetry. Illustrations by Yeon Yeoin (poster artist for Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice). First interior illustrations in Moonji's 40-year history. 5,000+ copies. Aladin Editor's Pick.
Korean · 5,000+ copies
Room 4 — Board Game
If You Call My Name, I Die (Fall 2026)
Monopoly concept. No first person. Global stories.
The experiment: a board game inside poetry. The reader rolls the dice and becomes a stranger — a perpetrator or a victim. No recovery. You pass by. You stand by. You are only briefly an '-er.'
Moonji · Fall 2026
Room 5 — Asylum
Tsundere Real Alpaca (Contracted)
Psychiatric hospital. Inspired by Nellie Bly.
The experiment: psychiatric diagnosis inside poetry. A patient named 'Lee Soho' experiences 50+ conditions in first person and escapes. DSM-5 as poetic structure.
Contracted
Room 6 — Error Room
Player Not Found (Contracted)
Every player is named Lee Soho. Every death is a system error.
The experiment: video game code inside poetry. Korea's erased histories — comfort women, Sewol, Gwangju, forced labor — recorded as error logs, cheat codes, boss battles, and game-overs. Every victim is Lee Soho. Every level is unbeatable.
Contracted
Room 7 — War
Don't Pretend It's Sunny (Contracted)
SF poetry. Future Korea and the Crimson Empire.
The experiment: science fiction inside poetry. War, loss of humanity, trauma. The last poem connects to the first.
Contracted
Room 8 — Lab
Lip I So Top Summer Sonic (Contracted)
Chemistry equations. Each poem kills with a different element.
The experiment: chemistry inside poetry. The periodic table becomes a murder manual. "Perfect Crime Recipe" repeats through the collection. The title hides isotope, isomer, isotonic inside Lee Soho's name. Same name, different molecular weight.
Contracted
Room 9 — Specimen
Freakshow Geek Psycho Medley (Contracted)
Language destruction, maximum experiment. Not logical, but painful.
The experiment: destroying meaning and leaving only pathos. The supreme experiment in language demolition.
Contracted
Room 10 — Physics
Even Sadness Could Be Science (Manuscript Complete)
Physics-based lyric poetry. Rogue planet sequence.
The experiment: physics inside poetry. Manuscript complete. Not yet contracted in Korea — available for English-language markets first.
Available for English first