A Sunday of Only Afternoon

Kim Hyesoon

Translated from the Korean by Cindy Juyoung Ok

The falling rain looks atthe blue skyThe ruined drawing gazes atthe white paperThe black crow stares atthe buried personThe morning that wakes in the afternoonlooks backListening while holding the breathto a spring-like daughter's morning song

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September 25, 2024

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Kim Hyesoon is the author of fourteen poetry collections in Korean with volumes translated into several languages. A winner of the Griffin Prize (with Don Mee Choi), Cikada Prize, and Midang Award, she is a professor emeritus of Seoul Institute of the Arts.

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Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward from the Yale Series of Younger Poets, the translator of The Hell of That Star from the Wesleyan Poetry Series, and an assistant English professor at the University of California, Davis.

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