Phantom Pain Wings Lamia Makaddam resounding with loneliness and isolation

resounding with loneliness and isolation

a retrospective essay on New Narrative

accompanied by reproductions of documents and ephemera

these poems fray and eddy and

Here the form of life called a poem speaks with the body's mortality

Phantom Pain Wings Lamia Makaddam resounding with loneliness and isolationKim 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