Chapter Page
My Beloved Parting
Bird's Poetry Book 11
Going Going Gone 14
Double S / Double S 15
Phantom Pain Wings 18
Bird's Repetition 21
Smell of Wings 23
Glimmer-You Must 25
Bird Stood as a Question Mark 27
Floor Is Not a Floor 29
Grief Guitar (Etcetera) 32
Farewell First 34
Girl, Your Body Has So Many Holes for Straws 35
10 Centimeters 37
Crow's Eye View 31 39
Inside-Bird and Outside-Bird 41
Birds' Funeral 43
Korean Zen 47
Double Dog-Eared Page 49
Regarding Bird's Respiratory Illness 51
Bird, Scared-Stiff 53
Tyrannus Melancholicus 54
I Sharpen the Forest and Write a Letter
Mailbox 63
C Is for Conceal 64
Almost blue 65
Again, I Need to Ask Poor Yi Sang 67
Portrait of Fear 70
Filling Out Customs Forms on the Last Day of the Month 71
Candle 73
Monster 74
Eyetooth 76
Little Poem 78
More Tender Heart 80
Postwoman 81
Mommy's Expansion 83
Pre-Ghost 84
I Don't Want To Live I...nside This Novel 85
Pointed Handwriting 87
Community of Parting
The Body of Parting 91
You Can't Put Your Hands Inside This Box 94
Fly, Hospital! 96
Winter Solstice Recipe 98
Bird Sickness 100
Is There White Light for Us? 101
P- P- 103
Bird's Diary 105
Shredded Bird 107
Don't Fly in This Country 109
Bird Shaman 110
Isn't That Photo Black and White? 112
Adverbs, Fly 114
Jellyfish Are Ninety Percent Water 116
Why Do Women Think That Animals Can Speak?
Eternal Bathroom 121
Vanished Mommy Vanished Kitchen 124
The Stretcher 126
Not 128
Abortion Boat 129
Red-Bean Handstand 131
Face That Refuses Anesthesia 134
A Blizzard Warning 135
Chorus 137
I Want to Marry My Grandma 140
H Is for Hideous 141
Owl 143
Bragging About My Dress 145
Beneath the dark cover of the cart / splendid coffins made of ebony / are swiftly dragged by the strong mares / with shiny dark-blue hair 147
Autism, 1 148
Autism, 1000 150
Straitjacket 152
Princess Naklang 154
Woman's Woman 157
Hypnosis Woman 159
Bird Rider: An Essay 163
Translator's Diary 170
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Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016), The Morning News Is Exciting (Action Books, 2010), and several chapbooks and pamphlets of poems and essays. She has received a Whiting Award, Lannan Literary Fellowship, Lucien Stryk Translation Prize, and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship. She has translated several collections of Kim Hyesoon's poetry, including Autobiography of Death (New Directions, 2018), which received the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize.