Antibody Book

Antibody, Elane Kim's debut collection, pays vivid, clarifying attention to the sensory world and family histories. Meditating on acts of care, science, light, translation, girlhood, and Korean-American identity, Kim offers poetry as a safeguard against forgetting, a hedge against devastation. Reaching for and through the vocabulary of grief, these elegiac poems hold fiercely to memories of a departed mother. For the speakers in this book, language and the sharing of language offer connection to a time before the body knew loss.