{"product_id":"phantom-pain-wings","title":"Phantom Pain Wings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (USA)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2024 Poetry Book Society Translation Choice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim Hyesoon here shapeshifts into birds as she explores trauma, grief and parting. Kim mixes folklore and mythology with contemporary psychodramatic realities as she taps into a cremation ceremony, Rimbaud, Agnès Varda, Francis Bacon’s portrait of Pope Innocent X, cyclones and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Reads like a variety of horror – haunted, grotesque, futureless. I love the way scale works here; both largeness and smallness can be forms of strength, the tiny and the epic. … In Kim’s metapoetics, the apparent futility of poetry is part of its surreptitious power.’ \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, The Best Poetry of 2023\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57395044909438,"sku":"NW9781916751200","price":12.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781916751200.jpg?v=1778675347","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/phantom-pain-wings","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}