Kim So-wol's poetry collection, Azaleas

Date of publication: March 15, 2020

Pages, weight, size: 232 pages | 302g | 128*190*15mm

ISBN13 9788925568737

ISBN10 892556873X

Meet Kim So-wol's poetry, a miracle and blessing in the history of Korean literature!

The first edition was sold for the highest price of 135 million won, and it is the first collection of poetry to be registered as a cultural asset among modern Korean works of literature. It is none other than Kim So-wol's 『Azaleas』. Kim So-wol's poetry is highly regarded both literary and popular. The poet's poetry, which expresses emotions such as love that penetrates the depths of our hearts, sorrow for parting, and longing for hometown with elegant and elegant poetic language, has remained familiar to us for a long time, going back several generations. Poet Na Tae-joo, winner of the 2019 Sowol Poetry Literature Award, said of Kim So-wol, “He is the poet who started my poetry. However, he is still a poet who cannot be overcome. No, he is a poet who will never be able to be overcome.” He added, “It was a miracle and a blessing from the beginning that Kim So-wol’s poetry exists in the history of Korean poetry.” The newly published 『Kim So-wol Poetry Collection Azalea Flower』 is a collection of the poet’s only poetry collection 『Azalea Flower』, 『Sowol Poetry Beginning』 compiled by his literary mentor Kim Eok after his death, and poems that were selected from among the poet’s representative works and poems that are recognized for their literary importance among the poems published in literary magazines such as 『Gaebyeok』. It also includes his own ‘poetry theory’ 『Sihon (詩魂)』 written by the poet himself.