Alone With Seoul

The persona that moves through Alone with Seoul is a shadow, an observer in two foreign lands-South Korea where the poet is an incomer, and the land of love, from which the poet has stepped aside. There are griefs here that run deep and there is the hard nugget of knowing survival.

Silence and solitude, the temptations of self-destruction and the ways we navigate an alienating world thread through poems exquisitely pared to the essentials of a lucid image and a perfect phrase. Poems that are enhanced by fragments of translation into South Korean. A distinctive, elegant debut.