The People's Field

by Haesong Kwon

With attention to the Japanese occupation, the Korean War and its aftermath, The People’s Field reflects on the sounds, ideas and histories of the Korean peninsula. Of her selection, contest judge Jenny Yang Cropp writes, “Kwon’s manuscript contains a paradoxical experience of both movement and stillness, history and the eternal present. These poems, short and spare, carry the intensity of distillation but resist the epigrammatic as they show us a rich and complex landscape that asks for and earns reading after reading.”

Genres: Poetry

62 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2019

Reviews

[Steven Shaw · Rating 4 out of 5]

These are wonderful little poems. I could read them again and again, phrasing them differently in my mind yet still uncertain of their meaning.