NOTES FROM THE DIVIDED COUNTRY

Winner of the Academy of American Poets' Walt Whitman Award, Kim's debut documents "Generation," "Occupation," "Hwajon" ("Fire-field"), "Resistance," "Drunk Metaphysics," the "Korean Community Garden in Queens" and 30 other hotly contested, deeply resonant sites, "A surf of objects that beat against the doors of the skull/ and are never abandoned."