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The poem "Famished, A Black Ladder Blood Box" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: "woman gravid; Last Line: made the most sense financially; still, it's been a long, costly process"

The poem "Labor of Medicine" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: Invisible garment forces a body to the floor. Supplicant, lover, maker of; Last Line: a stint with toss and pitch.

The poem "Camera Obscura" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: Old light, break up toward this vaulted chamber. Last Line: Wars of infinity, one by one.

The poem "Isolette" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: I reached into the isolette and turned the baby on its side, gently but; Last Line: The sound of horses or the odor of clouds-

An untitled poem by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: This concavity, the blood to pool and wait; Last Line: our hunting game with the last grasshopper.

The Poem "Beggar/Chooser/Begger" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: Was the first to cross over a woman, curious, or alone; Last Line: Punishment has yet to be invented.

The poem "Foresight, August 1910" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: Rain began in between the infinity. Last Line: pressed his unfolding bodies upon my fortification.

The poem "Our Land" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: Contemplate the meaning of aperture, of distance. Last Line: development.

The poem "Best Project: Clippings" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: my beautiful [war] fair box-and-circle; Last Line: invite me to do what you would have us do.

The poem "The Artist" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: It is I, not He, the one who draws your bath, separates the steam from the heavy; Last Line: Everything I make is unmade, a bed in the morning, your memory of me.

The Poem "Kingdom of the Light, Kingdom of the Dark" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: I place my self in the palm of my hand; Last Line: From wandering the earth and walking on it.

The article presents quotes from several poets regarding their poems which are published within the same issue of the periodical.

The poem "The Sibling Library" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: Fill in the name] [bedraggle; Last Line: the stars glitter and hang in the placeless blue.

The poem "The Labor of Childhood" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: "The passage of the threshold is a form of self-annihilation." Last Line: something with which to catch a hot iron.

The poem "Bongeunsa Temple, Samseongdong of Gangnamgu District" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: You: Slip into space and garland the stone steps. Last Line: You: My life is like a knife in my side.

The poem "August 1950, 8,000 Korean Replacements" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: A louse crawled from the new soldier's scalp. Last Line: His tripod became a three-legged deer and sprinted across enemy lines.

The poem "Return of the Native" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: Because of time being an arrow, I had to imagine everything. Last Line: always watching over you.

The poem "(Budae Chigae / "Garbage" Stew Near the Prostitution Camptown)" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: "You'll be taken first." Last Line: a boy's salt-stained neck.

The poem "Astray, Fugitive" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: On my knees, plates and shanks of bone; Last Line: I, at last, am raising flesh.

An untitled poem by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: Country of the sick, pilgrim and poet; Last Line: Beds of down, beds of earth.

Publication information of the book "Rough, and Savage" by Sun Yung Shin is presented.

The poem "A Curious Genealogy" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: virgin births dazzle / dismember / vouch for the reborn / a square; Last Line: cradle waits sweet pattern of tuck / and double.

The poem "Acquisition" by Sun Yung shin is presented. First Line: The portmanteau, mouth wide as its body; Last Line: paper, all the day's news, back and now.

The poem "Daughter at the Music Stand" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: Minuet in G—the virgin energy; Last Line: let me go—"

The poem "Earth Under Glass * The Celadon Museum" by SUN Yung Shin is presented. First Line: Tell us again, Father, of the boy who dined lonely on the crush of his own footstep; Last Line: walls why won't you quench this our first and last thirst.

The poem "1895, The King of Korea is a Vassal of China" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: History to be found,Teacher Cloud; Last Line: The word politics begins with a kiss and ends with a hiss.

The poem "(The North Korean Observatory) A Faux-Ku" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: The shoes of North Koreans sit patiently behind the vitrine, as if out- Last Line: binoculars' sly slot-mouth.

The poem "(Naju,Weeding at the Base of the Pear Tree)" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: A black snake, ringed green, almost slashed by the scythe, the shaft; Last Line: like a question mark.

The poem "Coal and Iron and Gold" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: "Indeed the nation is without ambition." Last Line: Stop your sentimental facial resemblance to the Caucasian race.

The poem "Former Comfort Women Not Allowed by the Korean Police in Front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: goose-legs of the folding chairs, the dark fluttery triangle; Last Line: (what can I take?)

The poem "My Most Imperfect Knowledge: The 1816 Voyages of the Alceste and Lyra" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: Despite the survey work lay me down like a book, bound. Last Line: sail and passing flame.

The poem "American Missionary" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: I am a union of devices.My fruit farm, my zeal. Last Line: My appeal, my plea, my application of restraint.

The poem "(Budae Chigae / "Garbage" Stew Near the Prostitution Camptown)" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: "You'll be taken first." Last Line: a boy's salt-stained neck.

The poem "(Outside the Gate at Camp Humprheys, U.S. Military Base)" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: That tank is my wet nurse, my elephant mother, my protector and; Last Line: liquor and gag.

The poem "Seoul, December 1883" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: A handkerchief fluttered, thrust through iron bars, shuttered loophole windows well; Last Line: deaths. Even as I write, Korea has ceased to exist."

The poem "(Mountain, Jirisan National Park)" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: Gifts crept to us and I made a crown of your mushrooms, a cape of fat slugs, a; Last Line: least seen, the most to see.

The poem "(Demilitarized Zone)" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: Like a wedding ring, or the bride's green ribbon, you shelter me. Last Line: bright and tall.The bones blur.We return alive.

The poem "(Pyongtaek, U.S. Military Base Expansion)" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: A white neocolonial house looks out onto the fields, limbless, no; Last Line: blackened to ash-yet still you kiss the bird's broken leg.

The poem "(Riot Police)" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: This is you-Titanus giganteus, your maw snapping pencils in half and; Last Line: look like my brother, my son.You could kill me with your looks.

The poem "Redaction: United States Central Intelligence Agency | The World Factbook | East and Southeast Asia :: Korea, North" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First line: kingdom long history,occupied Japan; Last Line: its people's livelihoods.

The poem "Redaction: United States Central Intelligence Agency | The World Factbook | East & Southeast Asia :: Korea, South" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First line: Korean state existed; Last Line: artillery attack on soldiers citizens.

The Poem "The Watcher" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: The little match girl's limbs are like spindles; Last Line: Sing me closer, sing me sewn into your pocket.

The poem "The Scapegoat" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: I will drive you into the wilderness; Last Line: my last hot meal was a stone full of rain.

The Poem "The Gift, the Envy" by Sun Yung Shin is presented. First Line: What do I need to do to seduce you; Last Line: Let me follow you like your own envy.