Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From Sonnet(s) unparalleled work

unparalleled work

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

In her debut full-length collection of poems

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

whose verse ranged from short lyrics to longer poems and extended sequences

Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From Sonnet(s) unparalleled workSawako 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,