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By Kim Sowol,David McCann

ISBN-10: 0231139721

ISBN-13: 9780231139724

ISBN-10: 023113973X

ISBN-13: 9780231139731

Available for the 1st time in English, Azaleas is a charming selection of poems through a grasp of the early Korean modernist kind. released in 1925, Azaleas is the one assortment Kim Sowol (1902-1934) produced in the course of his short lifestyles, but he continues to be considered one of Korea's so much cherished and recognized poets. His paintings is a pleasant and complicated combination of the pictures, tonalities, and rhythms of conventional Korean folks songs with strangely sleek kinds and issues. Sowol is usually recognized for his targeted and infrequently unsettling point of view, expressed via loneliness, longing, and an artistic use of dream imagery-a mirrored image of Sowol's engagement with French Symbolist poetry.

Azaleas recounts the adventure of a tender Korean as he travels from the northern P'yongyang quarter as regards to the cosmopolitan capital of Seoul. instructed via an array of voices, the poems describe the younger man's activities as he leaves domestic, his stories as a pupil and author in Seoul, and his go back north. even though thought of a landmark of Korean literature, Azaleas speaks to readers from all cultures. An essay via Sow?o's mentor, the poet Kim okay, concludes the gathering and gives important perception into Sowol's paintings and lifestyles. This based translation via David R. McCann, knowledgeable on smooth Korean poetry, continues the immediacy and richness of Sowol's paintings and stocks with English-language readers the quiet great thing about a poet who keeps to forged a strong spell on generations of Korean readers., reviewing a prior version or volume

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