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Evening Study Hall scrap

by Park Joongo link July 22, 2017

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Park Joon

Park Joon made his debut in 2008 through the quarterly magazine Silchon Munhak. He has published the poetry collections I Took Your Name and Ate It for Some Days,We Could See the Monsoon Together,and Without a Greeting, Without a Farewell, and the essay collections Though Crying Won’t Change a Thing and Seasonal Essays. He has won the Shin Dong-yup Prize for Literature, the Park JaesamLiterary Award, the Pyeon-un Literature Award, and the Prize for Young Artists.

In the evening my friends changed out of their uniforms in the bathroom and worked as delivery boys around the Jugong apartment complex and the girls from Sungdong Vocational High didn’t let their hiked-up hemlines get in the way of hoisting themselves atop the back seat of a raised motorcycle saddle

Yeonhwa as she left home stole her impoverished mother’s thick hair and the lower half of her late father’s face, leaving to roam from station to station

My jaundice was an excuse to play truant for a long time and underneath my desk my pincushion heart would surely be rolling around and graduation was so far away and the words carelessly spat from my yawning craw sat in gangs in every dark alley, cackling

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Park Joon

Park Joon

Park Joon is a poet and editor at Changbi Publishers. His poetry collection I Took Your Name as Medicine was a bestseller, ranking ninth among bestselling poetry collections in the last five years by Interpark Books. He has received the Sin Dong-yup Prize for Literature.

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