Slant by Suji Kwock Kim - Poem for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C can be found here)
Slant
Suji Kwock Kim
SNIPPET:
If the angle of an eye is all,
the slant of hope, the slant of dreaming, according to each life,
what is the light of this city,
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Suji Kwock Kim (b. 1969) is a Korean-American poet and playwright. She was educated at Yale College, the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, Seoul National University and Yonsei University. Her work has been published in The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and more. She’s also recorded for reputable programs like BBC Radio and National Public Radio, among others. Her work has been translated into Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, Croatian, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, and Bengali. (via Wikipedia)