OSSIA The Divine Comedy From the personal to the

From the personal to the political to the existential

open their eyes

all running alongside fact-checked notes and commentary that complements Rankine’s own text

Benjamin Krusling

it gathers poems from her published books

OSSIA The Divine Comedy From the personal to theJimin Seo The dead draw the living toward new language in Jimin Seos extraordinary debut poetry collection, OSSIA. Writing across Korean and English in poems that span a breadth of forms, Seo renders an entirely original map of the voice in its shifting address to a range of ghostly figures: his mother; old lovers; his late friend and mentor, the legendary poet translator Richard Howard. Taking the cleaving mechanism of translation as a point of