Tuesday, November 17, 2009

News at Eleven: Deceptively simple in style,

these poems convey stark, poignant scenes from the students' own lives, including loss, separation, and hunger. The title of the collection alone evokes the clandestine nature of their journey to South Korea, of young lives lived in shadow to avoid arrest and repatriation to swift and certain punishment in North Korea.

Part I: The Letters I Could Never Send

Father
By Ma Sung Hoon

from Radio Free Asia: The Moon Is Up' Pt I
also Radio Free Asia: The Moon Is Up' Pt II

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