Reading Han Kang Nobel Prize Winner

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Joy and I read two poems by Han Kang, a Korean author, who just won the Nobel Prize. Reading the poem, we experience the inadequacies of any translation simply because the power of words is no simply in the definition, but his emotional relationship with other words in the language and the world of that language.

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