Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From Sonnet(s) translates Desnos to bring the

translates Desnos to bring the poem into the present

all exploring the so-called pathetic or awkwardly-felt moments and revelations around which lives are both built and undone

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Don Mee Choi is the author of three books of poetry and hybrid essays

Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From Sonnet(s) translates Desnos to bring theSawako Nakayasu In Sawako Nakayasus Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From an unsettling diaspora of girls is deployed as poetic form, as reclamation of diminutive pseudo slur, and as characters that take up residence between the thick border zones of language, culture, and shifting identity. Written in response to Nakayasus 2017 return to the US, this maximalist collection invites us to reexamine our own complicity in reinforcing conventions,