Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From Sonnet(s) Greek poet Yannis Ritsos composed

Greek poet Yannis Ritsos composed a remarkable collection of 336 single-line poems

’ (Seo’s ‘paper box’ is not unlike Kim Hyesoon’s ‘pinkbox’—they both suffer from predetermined disposability

When two of the friends go home for the night

whose verse ranged from short lyrics to longer poems and extended sequences

Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From Sonnet(s) Greek poet Yannis Ritsos composedSawako Nakayasu In Sawako Nakayasus Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From an unsettling diaspora of girls is deployed as poetic form, as reclamation of diminutive pseudo slur, and as characters that take up residence between the thick border zones of language, culture, and shifting identity. Written in response to Nakayasus 2017 return to the US, this maximalist collection invites us to reexamine our own complicity in reinforcing conventions,