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Chapter Page
My Beloved Parting
Bird's Poetry Book 11
Going Going Gone 14
Double S / Double S 15
Phantom Pain Wings 18
Bird's Repetition 21
Smell of Wings 23
Glimmer-You Must 25
Bird Stood as a Question Mark 27
Floor Is Not a Floor 29
Grief Guitar (Etcetera) 32
Farewell First 34
Girl, Your Body Has So Many Holes for Straws 35
10 Centimeters 37
Crow's Eye View 31 39
Inside-Bird and Outside-Bird 41
Birds' Funeral 43
Korean Zen 47
Double Dog-Eared Page 49
Regarding Bird's Respiratory Illness 51
Bird, Scared-Stiff 53
Tyrannus Melancholicus 54
I Sharpen the Forest and Write a Letter
Mailbox 63
C Is for Conceal 64
Almost blue 65
Again, I Need to Ask Poor Yi Sang 67
Portrait of Fear 70
Filling Out Customs Forms on the Last Day of the Month 71
Candle 73
Monster 74
Eyetooth 76
Little Poem 78
More Tender Heart 80
Postwoman 81
Mommy's Expansion 83
Pre-Ghost 84
I Don't Want To Live Inside This Novel 85
Pointed Handwriting 87
Community of Parting
The Body of Parting 91
You Can't Put Your Hands Inside This Box 94
Fly, Hospital! 96
Winter Solstice Recipe 98
Bird Sickness 100
Is There White Light for Us? 101
P- P- 103
Bird's Diary 105
Shredded Bird 107
Don't Fly in This Country 109
Bird Shaman 110
Isn't That Photo Black and White? 112
Adverbs, Fly 114
Jellyfish Are Ninety Percent Water 116
Why Do Women Think That Animals Can Speak?
Eternal Bathroom 121
Vanished Mommy Vanished Kitchen 124
The Stretcher 126
Not 128
Abortion Boat 129
Red-Bean Handstand 131
Face That Refuses Anesthesia 134
A Blizzard Warning 135
Chorus 137
I Want to Marry My Grandma 140
H Is for Hideous 141
Owl 143
Bragging About My Dress 145
Beneath the dark cover of the cart / splendid coffins made of ebony / are swiftly dragged by the strong mares / with shiny dark-blue hair 147
Autism, 1 148
Autism, 1000 150
Straitjacket 152
Princess Naklang 154
Woman's Woman 157
Hypnosis Woman 159
Bird Rider: An Essay 163
Translator's Diary 170

Winged ventriloquy―a powerful new poetry collection channeling the language of birds by South Korea’s most innovative contemporary writer

An iconic figure in the emergence of feminist poetry in South Korea and now internationally renowned, Kim Hyesoon pushes the poetic envelope into the farthest reaches of the lyric universe. In her new collection, Kim depicts the memory of war trauma and the collective grief of parting through what she calls an “I-do-bird-sequence,” where “Bird-human is the ‘I.’” Her remarkable essay “Bird Rider” explains: “I came to write Phantom Pain Wings after Daddy passed away. I called out for birds endlessly. I wanted to become a translator of bird language. Bird language that flies to places I’ve never been.” What unfolds is an epic sequence of bird ventriloquy exploring the relentless physical and existential struggles against power and gendered violence in “the eternal void of grief” (Victoria Chang, The New York Times Magazine). Through intensely rhythmic lines marked by visual puns and words that crash together and then fly away as one, Kim mixes traditional folklore and mythology with contemporary psychodramatic realities as she taps into a cremation ceremony, the legacies of Rimbaud and Yi Sang, a film by Agnes Varda, Francis Bacon’s portrait of Pope Innocent X, cyclones, a princess trapped in a hospital, and more. A simultaneity of voices and identities rises and falls, existing and exiting on their delayed wings of pain.