In a hotel room in the 90s, a Japanese man hired by the Opera to repair Chinese-made violins is crouched over a mess on a grey rug, thinking: maybe I could turn these 12 violins into a house and live there until everyone knows my name. He is new to Cairo, and anonymity gnaws at his hair and bones like bugs. Across bridges and on the fringes of the desert, 12 boys wait impatiently for their instruments. The man wanders the tone-deaf streets, looking for spare parts for ancient instruments that had been crafted to work only underwater. Every time he visits a carpenter, he holds his breath, empties a large bottle of water over his head, and waits for any of the objects to make a sound. More often than not he is met with silence. Just a wet man surrounded by stunned men, their saws in the air. Once or twice, a knob or a sliver of wood launches into brief song around his dampened body. Both times he comes back to his breath, grabs the parts, and runs out. The boys coil old, worn socks int
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Nerve Chorus (The Word Works, 2018). Her poems have appeared in
AGNI, LARB Quarterly Journal, Narrative, The Slowdown, Tin House, and elsewhere. A finalist for The Georgia Poetry Prize, she was the winner of
Narrative Magazine’s Third Annual Poetry Contest and
Tupelo Quarterly’s TQ7 Poetry Prize. Her poetry video and multimedia work has been featured in Interim, Narrative Outloud, Writers Resist, and other venues. She earned her MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars and lives in New York City. willacarroll.com
The
Kenyon Review in which I converse with poets about their work and interests both on and off the page. Today’s feature is Jihyun Yun and her debut collection
Some Are Always Hungry (University of Nebraska Press, 2020), which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and which Ada Limón calls “a reckoning with immigration and historical trauma and rooted in the sensorial world, these poems are timeless and ongoing.” A Fulbright research grant recipient, she has received degrees from the University of California–Davis and New York University. Her work has appeared in
Narrative Magazine,
Poetry Northwest,
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