A Cruelty Special to Our Species

“Yoon unflinchingly illustrates the horrors suffered by Korean ‘comfort women’ and grapples with trauma both experienced and inherited.” —The Paris Review In her arresting debut collection, urgently relevant for our times, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon confronts the histories of sexual violence against women, focusing in particular on Korean so-called “comfort women,” women who were forced into sexual labor in Japanese-occupied territories during World War II. In wrenching language,  A