OSSIA People need various dark fantasies

People need various dark fantasies to call them a day

Poetry / Essay

they are brave enough to go forward into the uncharted waters

pregnant with its opposite

even as the horizon of the story doubles and fractals recursively past the limits of what we hold to be true as story

OSSIA People need various dark fantasiesPoetry. Changes, 2024. Paperback, 136 pages. 9. 875"x5. 75"x1. 5" From the press: The dead draw the living toward new language in Jimin Seos extraordinary debut poetry collection, OSSIA. Writing across Korean and English in poems that span a breadth of forms, Seo renders an entirely original map of the voice in its shifting address to a range of ghostly figures: his mother; old lovers; his late friend and mentor, the legendary poet translator Richard