OSSIA by Jimin Seo PRE-ORDER Jemima Hughes giving voice to critically underrepresented

giving voice to critically underrepresented experiences of illness through poems that are as peculiar and creative as they are arresting

and the Yale Younger Poets Prize

We join him as he travels with his friend and lover ‘Sad’ (short for Sad But Great)

‘Yang Lian distinguishes himself in representing the pain of life caught in between historic eras…a new version of an old issue for world literature as well as Chinese literature is proposed: how to continue writing

OSSIA by Jimin Seo PRE-ORDER Jemima Hughes giving voice to critically underrepresentedPublished 16th November 2024. Available for pre order. In this extraordinary, passionate debut poetry collection, Jimin Seo takes up a material we think we recognize language and transforms it through permutation, history, and translation into a lyrical and alien terrain. Seo takes up both Korean and English, drawing them across multiple experiences of relation none of them equivalence. Translation and re translation triangulate to form the ghostly