Monsoon Diary by Joseph Woods Penguin Putnam intensity and substance

intensity and substance

‘Aifreann na marbh’ [Mass for the dead] have not previously been available in English

one of two key journals which championed the intellectual and literary movement against the US-backed military dictatorships of Park Chung Hee and Chun Doo Hwan in the 1970s and 80s

and look ahead as she tries to work out what it means to be the one who stays behind

Monsoon Diary by Joseph Woods Penguin Putnam intensity and substanceBetween the birth of the poets daughter and the deaths of his parents, the poems in Monsoon Diary attempt to make sense of the world, from a mid life flight from home en famille to new perspectives on both the past and the future. Monsoon Diary strikes an often elegiac tone, betraying a growing awareness of mortality and the many losses that come with age. But it also bears witness to a country transitioning from dictatorship to democracy, finds the