Unexpected Vanilla

Shortlisted, 2021 National Translation Award in PoetryShortlisted, 2022 Sarah Maguire PrizeA sensual, surrealist collection by a young feminist poet, in an equally sensuous and sensitive queer translation.Lee Hyemi’s poetry is characterized by fluidity and wetness, with subjects moving about and soaking in each other through curious means. Unexpected Vanilla’s exchange of liquids often involves sex, but intercourse can be nonsexual: drinking tea or alcohol, going to the beach, sitting in the sam