Phantom Pain Wings Lamia Makaddam these poems fray and eddy

these poems fray and eddy and

a poet for the ages

a retrospective essay on New Narrative

resounding with loneliness and isolation

accompanied by reproductions of documents and ephemera

Phantom Pain Wings Lamia Makaddam these poems fray and eddyKim Hyesoon (trans. Don Mee Choi) An iconic figure in the emergence of feminist poetry in South Korea and now internationally renowned, Kim Hyesoon pushes the poetic envelope into the farthest reaches of the lyric universe. In her new collection, Kim depicts the memory of war trauma and the collective grief of parting through what she calls an I do bird sequence, where Bird human is the I. Her remarkable essay Bird Rider explains: I came to write