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First unwittingly, and then with concentrated grief, they chart the course of one of the most politically significant years in recent South Korean history: the sinking of the MV Sewol on the morning of April 16th that killed 304 people, including 250 high school students, and the reverberations of this national tragedy that culminated in the impeachment and ouster of the country's then-sitting president. Taken together, these writings bear witness to the people's shame, mourning, and perseverance under a corrupt administration\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003ea painful public reckoning not dissimilar from our own. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurreal but visceral, and inflected with both humor and rage, \u003ci\u003eLady No \u003c\/i\u003econtains perhaps the most accessible of Kim Hyesoon's writing to date and documents her first and only work of digital performance art. 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Near the end of his life, monks asked him to record what he found of interest on his mountain; Stonehouse delivered to them hundreds of poems and an admonition: \"Do not to try singing these poems. 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Each poem is gleaming in a varnish of light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eTina Schumann\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eBoneyard Heresies\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Fadely's collection, the echoes of Donne's \"no man is an island\" resonate as poems deeply connected to lyrical traditions, ancient and modern, navigate the flux of continents and cultures. These verses move with striking versatility, from moments of fierce, high-stakes questioning to scenes of tender, quiet reflection. 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