Masayo Koike, Selected Poems the New York dilettante re-imagined

the New York dilettante re-imagined as an English teacher in South Korea

Alone in Two Billion Light Years

”The Blackbird is a powerful record of a sustained

1963) was born in the Karen Liberated Area

His first poem on the depiction of Chin land was published in a student magazine in 1990

Masayo Koike, Selected Poems the New York dilettante re-imaginedMasayo Koikes poetry is quiet rather than angry; in many poems we catch a glimpse of a calm, at times almost naive intelligence, registering the events of the world on the senses of the perceiver. Her language is subtle, attuned to the natural rhythms of speech. In short, she works at her craft in a subtle, gentle manner, revealing slowly her wonders to behold. Her poetry is sensitively translated into supple English verse by the well known poet and