Phantom Pain Wings Lamia Makaddam a poet for the ages

a poet for the ages

a retrospective essay on New Narrative

The Speak Angel Series took years to accomplish but is finally ready

je hoort het liedje van de vinken

resounding with loneliness and isolation

Phantom Pain Wings Lamia Makaddam a poet for the agesKim 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