Literature

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women’s Studies. Translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi. For decades, Kim Hyesoon—a leading figure in contemporary Korean poetry and trans-national feminist literature—has represented the capabilities of a poet who works across, around, and through the borders of nations and of language itself. Many of her works have…

Poetry. Brian Henry takes the blank, desolate canvas of snow and searches “for a river of color buried.” With calm precision he sways from physical to abstract, from stasis to motion. The balance creates a chilling vista on the human connection to the ambivalent force of nature. Henry is the author of ten books of…