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2.1.22

In Lee Young-ju’s “A Girl and the Moon [3]” from her collection Cold Candies (Black Ocean, 2021), translated from the Korean by Jae Kim, image and story are woven together into a spellbinding prose poem that maintains its steady rhythm through the consistent use of commas. “Mid-night, swinging upside down on a pull-up bar, the girl says, Mother, this bone growing on my back, white in the night, protruding out of my skin, long and endlessly this bone,” writes Young-ju. This week, write a poem that uses commas as its only punctuation. Does this formal constraint challenge your syntax and word choice?


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/commas [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] https://lithub.com/a-girl-and-the-moon/