OSSIA Steve Benson

Steve Benson

even as the horizon of the story doubles and fractals recursively past the limits of what we hold to be true as story

—Stacy Szymaszek

Ghost Pains is a triumphant statement of purpose from one of our greatest young writer-thinkers

OSSIA Steve BensonPoetry. Changes, 2024. Paperback, 136 pages. 9. 875"x5. 75"x1. 5" From the press: The dead draw the living toward new language in Jimin Seos extraordinary debut poetry collection, OSSIA. Writing across Korean and English in poems that span a breadth of forms, Seo renders an entirely original map of the voice in its shifting address to a range of ghostly figures: his mother; old lovers; his late friend and mentor, the legendary poet translator Richard