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2016 Lucien Stryk Shortlist: I am a Season that Does Not Exist in the World, by Kim Kyung Ju, trans. by Jake Levine

Posted on September 20, 2016 by rcldaum

I Am a Season that Does Not Exist in the World By Kim Kyung Ju Translated from the Korean by Jake Levine (Black Ocean) Kim Kyung Ju is clearly a major literary figure who has emerged the last few years … Continue reading →

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Stryk Shortlist: Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream by Kim Hyesoon translated by Don Mee Choi

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Erica Mena

Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream by Kim Hyesoon (Korea) Translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi (Action Books) Experimental Korean poet Kim Hyesoon’s work is shocking, liberating, brutal, grotesque, burlesque, gurlesque. Published by the aptly-named Action Books, Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream has Kim’s longtime … Continue reading →

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