Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi
Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Translation Choice Andrew Motion through the haunting images left

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Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi<br><b>Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Translation Choice</b> Andrew Motion through the haunting images leftWinner 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,