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Phantom Pain WingsKim 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

But grief and loss can also teach us about love

Deze bundel bevat de gedichten en de essays die ze de afgelopen jaren in NRC publiceerde

Het Land van Kokanje

saved her culture and her own life by teaching a powerful and murderous ruler to abandon cruelty in favor of wisdom and benevolence

Intimate and speculative

Merel van Slobbe

in het fietsenhok op school

geen van alle beschouwt ze als haar moedertaal

mensen die vechten tegen het donker om hen heen en in zichzelf

Joke van Leeuwen en nog vele anderen: de geselecteerde dichters blinken uit in taalkunst

wat is er van mij

op mij wacht