Phantom Pain Wings – Kim Hyesoon
If loss is a small hammer veining an otherwise intact shell, then grief is what shatters that shell into pieces in Kim Hyesoon’s complex collection PHANTOM PAIN WINGS.
What isn’t to be feared in carrying a child and caring for a newborn, when every action has a potential harm? What isn’t to be feared when a newborn child so upends a woman’s very definition of self?