Book · 1925 · Fiction

Azaleas

Name: Azaleas
Author: Kim Sowol

Columbia University Press · 320 pages

★ 5.4 editorial score

A woman watches her lover go and promises to scatter azaleas in his path rather than weep. Kim Sowol put Korean folk-song rhythm into modern verse, and the whole country memorized him.

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