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“Hands” by Shin Hae-Wook

JibrilSunday, June 9th, 2013Friday, October 28th, 2022

You put on the glove. Your hands have become smaller somehowand because you’ve placed them on your knees,stranger still. *…

Recent Translations

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From the Archives

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