Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi
Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Translation Choice Andrew Motion this collection also captures the

this collection also captures the larger themes within Shin’s work and his attention to the spirit of community and peaceful coexistence with others

Does Flick belong to the past or to the future

She has always found new ways to speak the unspeakable

Their work has been published widely in the UK and North America

Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi<br><b>Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Translation Choice</b> Andrew Motion this collection also captures theWinner of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (USA)2024 Poetry Book Society Translation ChoiceKim Hyesoon here shapeshifts into birds as she explores trauma, grief and parting. Kim mixes folklore and mythology with contemporary psychodramatic realities as she taps into a cremation ceremony, Rimbaud, Agns Varda, Francis Bacons portrait of Pope Innocent X, cyclones and more. Reads like a variety of horror haunted, grotesque,