Antibody

Antibody, Elane Kim's debut collection, pays vivid, clarifying attention to the sensory world and family histories. Meditating on acts of care, science, light, translation, girlhood, and Korean—American identity, Kim offers poetry as a safeguard against forgetting, a hedge against devastation. Reaching for and through the vocabulary of grief, these elegiac poems hold fiercely to memories of a departed mother. For the speakers in this book, language and the sharing of language offer connecti...