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

The Core
By Choi Young Mee

I close my eyes

from Radio Free Asia: 'The Moon Is Up' Pt. III

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