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Phantom Pain Wings

by Kim Hyesoon

National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry · 2023 · Winner
New DirectionspoetryISBN 9780811232586

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About This Book

Kim Hyesoon's visionary collection, translated from Korean by Don Mee Choi, inhabits the voices of women condemned and dismissed across Korean history in poems of hallucinatory intensity. Winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry.

About the Author

Kim Hyesoon is a South Korean poet widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential voices in contemporary Korean literature. Born in Uljin, South Korea, she was educated at Seoul National University, where she later taught for many years. She is now Professor Emerita of Seoul Institute of the Arts. Read more →

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