Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From Sonnet(s) In her debut full-length collection

In her debut full-length collection of poems

Greek poet Yannis Ritsos composed a remarkable collection of 336 single-line poems

and yet emphasizes the archival and documentary as intrinsic to our personal and collective survivals

De toelichting combineert oud en nieuw: bevindingen van voorgangers en eigen vondsten van de auteur

’ (Seo’s ‘paper box’ is not unlike Kim Hyesoon’s ‘pinkbox’—they both suffer from predetermined disposability

Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From Sonnet(s) In her debut full-length collectionSawako 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,