Painful Celebrations: Five Books for National Poetry Month
Every act of reading is inseparable from what the reader has encountered before.
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Posts Tagged: Kim Hyesoon
Notable Chicago: 2/8–2/14
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 2/6–2/12
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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What to Read When You Need to Know about Korea
A list of books about Korea (both North and South) and by Koreans that Rumpus editors have read and enjoyed.
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The Read Along: Christina Nichol
Christina Nichol, author of Waiting for the Electricity, takes a deep dive into Korean literature and catches up on some classics of anthropology and psychology.
...moreWhy We Should (Still) Read (More) Translations
We here in the US are shitty. Also the rest of the world is shitty. Reading books in translation reminds us of this. The rest of the world is as shitty as we are, only it’s a different kind of shit, and the poets have different approaches to documenting and responding to the shit. And […]
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