Woman
“She comes each morning/ with the sea on her head.// Fresh oysters for sale, fresh oysters!/ She cries like the sunlight…”
By Kang Ūn-gyo, translated from Korean by Kevin O’Rourke.
Stéphanie Brachet
When the Plug Gets Unplugged
“you and I begin to rot in the open. I can’t leave the lights on for you any longer. We can no longer look each other in the face…”
By Kim Hyesoon, translated from Korean by Don Mee Choi.
Fluxfilm No. 4 (Lesbian)
“A writer has his hands deep in his pockets, pulling out his machine guns/ and rifles.”
By Kim Yideum, translated from Korean by Ji Yoon Lee, Don Mee Choi and Johannes Göransson.
Nameless Woman
“Up in some cleft in the hills/ I’d go to be a nameless woman./ I’d put up gourds on the thatched roof,/ Plant squash and pumpkins in the clearing,/ Train up a hedge of wild roses,/ Let the skies down into the yard…”
By No Ch’Ån-myÅng, translated from Korean by David R. McCann.
Performer, Male
“the dawn light, as it spreads across our road,/ like the reed horn that calls out the ones who want to see:/ mixing sadness and happiness, it all opens out before us…”
By No Ch’Ån-myÅng, translated from Korean by David R. McCann.