The Cheapest France in TownSeo Jung Hak (trans. Megan Sungyoon) The elusive, distant, almost disembodied voice of Korean poet Seo Jung Haks English language debut examines interiorities that seem familiar, yet whose ordinariness rises to the level of the uncanny. Inspired by the commodification of arts, emotions, and ideologies, these poemswritten over a span of 18 years from 1999 to 2017parody the very act of writing amid worn out rhetorical tropes, in a tone that is at times

In the construction of his intricate patterns

(the utopian object of) space exploration

Critics called the work 'explosive and impactful'

Maak in een handomdraai een inspirerende poëziemuur

published on the thirtieth anniversary of that original edition

'My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun'

Haar vroege poëzie heeft een wat bescheiden plaats en het latere dichtwerk krijgt meer ruimte

‘in your face’

Award-winning poet explores new formal terrain in seven long poems against the violence of the present political moment

Island mountain glacier is Vegter’s first full collection in English

As Anselm Berrigan has written: "Doug Lang's poems are the only poems that matter

The compositional logic may in essence be a logic of self-punishment – “I am a stupid cunt” – but embraced and played out in language