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Azaleas A Book of Poems

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ISBN-10: 023113973X

ISBN-13: 9780231139731

Edition: 2007

Authors: Kim Sowol, David McCann

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Available for the first time in English, Azaleasis a captivating collection of poems by a master of the early Korean modernist style. Published in 1925, Azaleasis the only collection Kim Sowol (1902-1934) produced during his brief life, yet he remains one of Korea's most beloved and well-known poets. His work is a delightful and sophisticated blend of the images, tonalities, and rhythms of traditional Korean folk songs with surprisingly modern forms and themes. Sowol is also known for his unique and sometimes unsettling perspective, expressed through loneliness, longing, and a creative use of dream imagery-a reflection of Sowol's engagement with French Symbolist poetry. Azaleasrecounts the…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/3/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

David R. McCann is Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature at Harvard University. He has translated the work of many Korean poets& mdash;including Kim Chi Ha, So Chongju, Ko Un, and Kim Namjo-and is the author or editor of many books, including The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetryand The Way I Wait for You, a collection of his own poems.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Sowol's Poetry and Place in Korean Literature
For My Love
Someday Long After
Plucking Grass
The Sea
On the Mountain
The Old Stories
Love's Song
Untitled
Love's Words
For My Love
On a Dry Riverbank
Spring Night
Spring Night
Night
Long Ago in a Dream
One Who Came in a Dream
Two People
Snowy Evening
Purple Cloud
Two People
Cock's Crow
Unforgettable
I Did Not Really Know Before
Sleeping or Waking, Sitting or Standing
Though the Sun Is Sinking at the Mountain Crest
No One Lone Mountain
Dream
Day of Worries
Sky's Edge
Ant
Swallow
Owl
The Great Wall
Buds
One Time, One Time
Cigarettes
Untitled
Mom and Dad
Parents
Remarried
Lost Heart
Spring Rain
Silken Mists
Memory
Impatient Love
Terrible Dream
Dream Visit
Woman's Scent
Powdered Face
Wife's Body
Seoul Night
Half-Moon
Autumn Morning
Autumn Evening
Half-Moon
The Cricket
This Thought of Meeting
Familiar Faces
Deeply Held Belief
Dream
Sweethearts and Friends
Paper Kite
Falling Snow
Lump of Grief
Optimism
Wind and Spring
Snow
Pledge Deep as Deep
Red Tide
Some Other Country's Land
Thousand, Ten Thousand Ri
Life and Death
Fisherman
Cricket
Moon Color
If the Seacoast Changed to a Mulberry Grove
If It Wasn't for Bad Luck...
If the Seacoast Changed to a Mulberry Grove
Wax Candle Lamp
Should We Just Say Whatever Words Are in Our Minds
A Later Day
Man and Wife
My House
Dawn
Cloud
Summer's Moon
Summer's Moon
Approach of Spring
Water Plants
Forsaken
Our House
Picnic
Forsaken
Solemnity
Only Think, If We Had Our Land, Our Own to Plow
By the Furrow
Evening
Hands Together
Meditation
Alone
Delight
Grave
Prayerful Spirit
Cold Evening
Invocation
Loneliness of the Journey
Azaleas
Song of the Stream
Road
Stream
Road Away
Wangsimni
Mandarin Duck Pillow
Detachment
Mountain
Azaleas
Sakchu Kusong
Seesaw
Ch'unhyang and Yi Toryong
Cuckoo
Thought of Home
Flowers of the Mountain
Lighting the Flower Lamp at Night
Lighting the Flower Lamp at Night
Riches and Honor, Wealth and Fame
Repentance
Insincerity
Dream Path
Human Beings Live to Die
Right to Seek to Die
Hope
Panoramic
I Have Lived Not Knowing Life at All
Golden Meadow
Golden Meadow
River Village
First Skirt
New Moon Celebration
O Mother, O Sister
Rooster Cock-a-Doodle-Doo
Rooster Cock-a-Doodle-Doo
Afterword: Remembrance of Sowol Kim Ok