Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward (Yale University Press, 2024) and is the translator of The Hell of That Star by ...

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I come from the remote borders of the land of oblivion. My songs will not sound beneath your balconies, I am the singer of the broken sanctuaries. Artist, dreamer, sensitive and tender, my music is a ...

And all that remains for me is to follow a violet darkness on soil where myths splinter and crack. Yes, love was time, and it too splintered and cracked like the face of our country.

Some things are better off unnamed? I can’t help but reason with your ash. Names become the first steppings into ruin, yes? Name a thing, and you’ve marked it for the end, of Imagination? And unless ...