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The Transformation

The Transformation | Poem by Emily Jungmin Yoon | Film by Malin Sandberg

“It wasn’t fair that fish could see color, / and whales could not, but I was okay: I loved my new body. / I don’t know what kind of whale I was. In the ocean / there were no mirrors.” Emily Jungmin Yoon’s poem “The Transformation,” which appears in her debut collection, A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco, 2018), has been adapted into a Motionpoems film directed by Malin Sandberg. 

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The Transformation
Emily Jungmin Yoon
A Cruelty Special to Our Species
Ecco
2018
Motionpoems
video poem
short film

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