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The winners for the Best Translated Book Awards have been announced! WLT contributing editor David Shook’s press Phoneme has taken home the BTBA in poetry for…
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Photo of Han Kang by Paik Dahuim / Courtesy of Natur & KulturLike a clutch of words strewn over white paper.
Seoul, which I had last seen in…
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In the Beginning the Word
worldlittoday · In The Beginning The Word by Rachel Tzvia Back
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the word was
unverbed unruled just birthed
before bird…
Background photo by Sved Oliver / Adobe StockA Visitor from Hell
A resident of Hell, I’ve been sitting here,
Lord,
for years.
Do I not deserve
to be…